bad checks
Insufficient funds documents
Bad checks are checks written on accounts with insufficient funds to cover them, or on accounts that don't exist at all.
Writing a bad check—also called a bounced check or rubber check (because it "bounces" back)—can result in bank fees, merchant penalties, and in cases of deliberate fraud, criminal charges.
He got arrested for passing bad checks all over town.
The phrase sometimes extends metaphorically to broken promises or commitments that can't be honored.
Returned after hitting surface
- insufficient fundsLacking required money
- kitingAirborne recreation or fraud
- rubberElastic polymer from trees
- dishonoredBrought shame upon
overdraft · forgery · counterfeit · float · NSF · worthless · stop payment · bank fraud
Pursuing legal charges
- felonySerious criminal offense
- misdemeanorLesser criminal charge
- restitutionRestoring what was lost
- collectionGathered set of items
arrest · civil penalties · criminal charges · jail · fines · lawsuit · garnishment · credit damage
bounced
Returned after hitting surface
- insufficient fundsLacking required money
- kitingAirborne recreation or fraud
- rubberElastic polymer from trees
dishonored · overdraft · forgery · counterfeit · float · NSF · worthless · stop payment · bank fraud · altered
prosecution
Pursuing legal charges
- felonySerious criminal offense
- misdemeanorLesser criminal charge
- restitutionRestoring what was lost
collection · arrest · civil penalties · criminal charges · jail · fines · lawsuit · garnishment · credit damage · recovery
- misdemeanorsmisdemeanor, petty theft, disorderly conduct, public intoxication, petty larceny
- check fraudforged signature, forged signatures, forgery, signature forgery, fake endorsements
- counterfeitingcounterfeit currency, counterfeit bills, counterfeit cash, fake money, fake bills
bad checkscertified checks
Bank-assured payment instruments
cashier's checks · cash · money orders · bank drafts · wire transfers
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