Foreign currency, travellers cheques and the new American Express Travellers
Cheque Card can be ordered up to the value of pounds 3,000.
But it was in the days when a
cheque card only guaranteed something like pounds 25, and the garage man had no intention of taking a foolish youth's background on trust.
Two women, possibly a mother and daughter, used forged cheques and a stolen
cheque card to buy goods from a furniture store.
As well as a
cheque card from the now defunct Midland Bank, it contained 12 pence in change, and photo ID with a black and white passport photo.
Miss Owen is also blieved to be suspected of a pounds 250,000 credit card and
cheque card fraud.
In the UK, the first
cheque card was launched in 1965 to guarantee cheques up to pounds 30.
The group is also offering the new American Express Travellers
Cheque Card, which can be loaded with foreign currency in the UK and used like a debit card abroad.
The cashier wanted a
cheque card, a passport, a specimen of water, a temporary address, a blood group.
-IF you are carrying your cheque book and
cheque card around with you keep them in separate inside pockets so they are less likely to be stolen together.
Pausing only to scan these queues to ensure that a swift exit is not delayed by that student fruitlessly trying to pay for a can of beans, packet of Peak Freans and a toilet roll with a cheque - but paradoxically no
cheque card.
On February 15 Gaynor, who has a prominent scar on his left cheek, reported to police that he had lost a brown leather jacket containing a cheque book,
cheque card and pounds 200 in cash in Belfast City Centre.