From: Minnie Goodsoup 
Subject: Re: Finding destination bank details
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Earth-is-round: Yes
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 21:43:26 GMT

Chris Blunt wrote:

> On Sun, 21 May 2006 11:43:53 GMT, C. Seņor 
> wrote:
> 
>>If I write someone a cheque, once it's been paid into a bank account is it
>>possible to ask my bank to tell me the account that it was paid in (ie.
>>sort code, account number)? The purpose would be so a third party debt
>>order can then be put on that account.
> 
> Some banks ask you to write your account number on the back of a
> cheque before paying it in, and there have been times when I've seen a
> cashier write it on when I've forgotten to do so. If you asked your
> bank to retrieve a copy of the back of the cheque from the archive
> you'd see that information. Of course, if the payee was trying to
> conceal his account details from you he would try to avoid that
> happening.

I think the problem is now is to have a debtor pay in a cheque for a
nominal fee with my name on.