Is Someone Using Your Cheque Book?

..........There was someone, he knew, who had deposited a cheque with the same number to take money out of his account. Is it possible? What was happening? Kataria sensed that he was not a victim of new-age frauds that newspapers have been reporting about: no one had stolen his Net banking password; no hacker had fished out his credit card data. Instead, someone had simply used a cheque that was a replica of a leaf in his cheque book. Half an hour later, Kataria was told by the bank's Mumbai branch manager that the cheque was debited at the bank's branch in Nipani, a non-descript town in Karnataka and 37 kms from Kolhapur. While Kataria did not lose any money (as the amount was credited back to his account by the end of the day), he as well as his branch manager are clueless of what happened, how it happened.......

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