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Check-Raising Always a Danger A Scheme Almost Impossible to Prevent The American Bankers' Association the Greatest Foe to Forgers It Follows Them Relentlessly and Successfully Chemically Prepared Paper and Watermarks Not Always a Safeguard Perforating Machines and Check Raisers How Check Perforations Are Overcome How an Ordinary Check Is Raised How an Expert Alters Checks How Perforations Are Filled Hasty Examination by Paying Tellers Encourages Forgers The Way Bogus Checks Creep Through a Bank Unnoticed A Celebrated Forgery Case Forgers Successful for a Time Always Caught Where Forgers Usually Go That Have Made a Big Haul A Professional Crook Is a Person of Large Acquaintance.
Yet with all this remorseless hunting, check-raising flourishes so well all over the United States that the banks fear to give even a hint as to the sums of which they or their depositors are robbed each year. The magnitude of the amount would frighten too many persons.
"Unless you promise me not to do as I dared you to I shall not let you go a step farther with me. "I'm afraid you'll have to let me take you the rest of the way, Miss Standish," he said, a sterner note in his voice quelling her protest and setting her to wondering. "If you like, we can postpone my talk with Standish about the check-raising.
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