Bank payment blacklist?

my3cents

Anyone know anything about a black list that banks run whereby they won't allow money to be paid to certain names?

My wife went into Ulster bank to get a sterling cheque written out to a niece and was told they couldn't write a cheque for that name as it was on a blacklist.

Atlantic Dawn

Seems odd, you would imagine for every dodgy name there would be many other customers with the same name.

Carawaystick

Personal names or names that are confusing similar to certain organisations?

my3cents

A name like John Smith or Joe Murphy! The computer said no the operator could not print out a cheque made out to that persons name? The operator said the person was on a backlist? Two weeks earlier my wife had a sterling cheque made out in the same bank for a different relative with no problem.

Thats about as much as I know apart from the fact my wife made a fuss about it and I can't really blame her.

Toots

That sounds incredibly odd, I've never heard of that before. I mean it's not like she was going in and asking for one to be made out to John Gilligan, that might have raised a flag, but even then, I've never heard of an individual name being on a blacklist. If it's for a not-too-big amount, you can get a sterling postal order from the post office, and that can be made out to anybody you like.

my3cents

In the end she did go and get a sterling postal order.