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cjhepburn
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What is the name of your state? California
I recently started a web design business in addition to hosting etc. My newest customer gave me the usual deposit for services and the check was returned marked "Refer to Maker."
He gave me a believable excuse and replaced the check. I got that back and he had stopped payment on it. Because of the lag time between transactions and when they send it back to me I didn't know what was happening and accepted two more checks. One of those bounced today or was stopped, I'm not sure. There is no question that the last one will be returned as well. He just makes up lies and wild stories and wants to accept yet another check.
I'm upside down in my account because of these checks and I can't seem to get any help, from anyone.
Collections agency said it could take months if they can do anything at all. District attorney had little to no responce and suggested I just cancel services and write it off. Well I did cancel services but this is deliberate fraud but because the checks didn't come back NSF it's not being taken seriously.
Please advise.
Thank you,
Cherie
I recently started a web design business in addition to hosting etc. My newest customer gave me the usual deposit for services and the check was returned marked "Refer to Maker."
He gave me a believable excuse and replaced the check. I got that back and he had stopped payment on it. Because of the lag time between transactions and when they send it back to me I didn't know what was happening and accepted two more checks. One of those bounced today or was stopped, I'm not sure. There is no question that the last one will be returned as well. He just makes up lies and wild stories and wants to accept yet another check.
I'm upside down in my account because of these checks and I can't seem to get any help, from anyone.
Collections agency said it could take months if they can do anything at all. District attorney had little to no responce and suggested I just cancel services and write it off. Well I did cancel services but this is deliberate fraud but because the checks didn't come back NSF it's not being taken seriously.
Please advise.
Thank you,
Cherie
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