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    Default Cashing Somebody Else's IRS Refund Check, Same Name

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: California

    I mistakenly cashed an IRS tax return check to the wrong person. The check was presented to me by the sister of the payee, with the same first and last names. I have a copy of her DL. She signed it and made no mention of a sister with a same name or that it was not her check.......Few months after this incident, her sister, the real payee visits my shop and tells me she will claim this check (over $2000) and that I cashed the check that belonged to her to her sister of the same name......Yesterday, the bank withdrew the check amount from my account.....The sister that cashed the check has now moved and I cannot locate or contact her....Advise on options is duly appreciated.

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    Default Re: I Cashed an IRS Check to Sister of Same Name

    there are two sisters that have the exact same name, right?

    do they happen to be twins?

    do you have a business, a bank, or just a private party?




    .The sister that cashed the check has now moved and I cannot locate or contact her....Advise on options is duly appreciated.
    You make a police report and keep trying to find her.

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    Default Re: I Cashed an IRS Check to Sister of Same Name

    same name, not twins, I'm a grocer who cashes checks also.

    I've made a police report but I'm not optimistic about finding her or getting anything back even if we were to find her. I have a suspicion that the sisters worked together on this, but I have no proof.

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    Default Re: I Cashed an IRS Check to Sister of Same Name

    Are you saying they were both named Mary Smith? Or that one of them was named Mary Smith and the other was named Merry Smith?

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    Default Re: I Cashed an IRS Check to Sister of Same Name

    so, have you called the police? In either scenario I can think of, somebody did something illegal.

    what is on the check that would make it known that it was one sisters or the other's?

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    Default Re: Cashing Somebody Else's IRS Refund Check, Same Name

    It is customary, when cashing an IRS check, to verify the SS# of the person presenting the check, matches the check.

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    Default Re: I Cashed an IRS Check to Sister of Same Name

    yes same name including middle initial, but the middle name is different. On the check, the name appears as Jane X Doe.

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    Nothing on the check itself differentiated the sisters. The address on the check neither matched the addresses on the CDL ids of either sister.

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    Default Re: Cashing Somebody Else's IRS Refund Check, Same Name

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    It is customary, when cashing an IRS check, to verify the SS# of the person presenting the check, matches the check.
    It appears they have removed the SS#, since the last time I saw a refund check. I apologize.

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    Default Re: I Cashed an IRS Check to Sister of Same Name

    The address on the check neither matched the addresses on the CDL ids of either sister.

    and that wasn't a clue?

    so, have you called the police yet?

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    Default Re: I Cashed an IRS Check to Sister of Same Name

    yes, but many in my neighborhood move often, and they frequented the store often. Of course, I didn't know their names or their relationship. I have called the police and made a report, but nothing has come of it yet.

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