I am assuming that this fraud took some time to straighten out, and there were amounts on your books for a stretch of time before it all cleared up. You want your accounts to look like that.
First, I'd void the original credit card payment with a note about the fraud, since it never went through. Next, I'd create a transaction for the fraudulent amount to a new expense account Expenses:Fraud. Finally, when the money was recovered and returned, I'd enter a transaction from Expenses:Fraud back to your checking account. IANAA, YMMV, IYKYK, IDKS, TKKKHITLLLH* David T. * I made that one up for "To know know know him, is to love love love him" On June 15, 2026 5:47:47 AM GMT+05:30, "Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 2026-06-14 10:20, Robert Putman wrote: >> I had a check to a credit card company that was washed and cashed by >> someone else. We reported it as fraud and was eventually repaid. How do I >> record this in GnuCash so that it doesn't appear as income but that will >> balance in GnuCash? > >If I understand you correctly, you did not actually lose (or gain) any >money by this episode of check fraud. > >In that case, you don't have to record anything, since you had no income >or expense and none of your assets or liabilities changed in value. > >If you want to record _something_ for historical purposes, you can enter >a transaction with no transfer account and no amounts. GC is quite happy >to accept such transactions and then you'll have a record in your >checking account register in case some time in the future you need to >know when this happened/ > >Stan Brown >Tehachapi, CA, USA >https://BrownMath.com >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-user mailing list >[email protected] >To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >----- >Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
