Today, when I tried to purchase somethiing at a retail store with a check, it was declined?

Question

When I called the 800 number the store referred me to, I was told that my check was declined because my drivers license number was too similiar to my husbands. The only difference between our nujmbers are the last two digits. I was advised that the only way to clear this up, was to fax a copy mine and my husbands drivers licenses, a voided check, along with our physical address, and phone number,also a brief statement explaining why we're sending in the info. They said that once we do this, our file will be updated, and the problem will be resolved.My husband had written a check a couple of weeks before, that had also been declined, but he never had looked into it. The whole thing seems really strange to me, I've never heard of anything like this before.

Answer 1

wow your right that is strange. I have never heard of anythig like that. Sometimes shops decline checks because it takes a lot longer for the money to come through with checks, where as cash in hand is straight up. But I've never heard of your licence being a cause. Hope this helps =)

Answer 2

This sounds too weird.

Answer 3

okay cool

Answer 4

Do not shop there sounds like a scam to me. And drop checks use debit cards.

Answer 5

Go to your bank.....Don't call Go

This is to important to pass up.....Don't you get that feeling

that something is really wrong here??

When your Bank opens....Walk through the doors.....And, talk to all the important people you need to talk too!!

Don't let this slip through with a phone call to the bank

People  will react and get on this that day .......

When you are sitting across from a bank employee....You have there complete attention

They will talk to every one they have to talk to.........making sure your money is safe!!

Go to your Bank this morning...Please

Answer 6

That is pretty strange.. because I work in a retail store.. and whenever one of our guests checks are declined, we call the 1-800 number ourselves to check and the operator will ask for identification, routing number, check number.. all those info.. and after that they will usually tell us what the problem is.. i.e. insufficient amount in account, driver's license wrong, wrote out to many checks throughout the day, and maybe even FRAUD ALERT or IDENTITY THEFT! But never once heard of an excuse about driver's license number being to similar to spouses'.