Hittade en artikel om det från 1988.
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-03-...fi-90_1_checks
Citat:
CHICAGO — Checks treated with a chemical that causes them to disintegrate into confetti shortly after being deposited have shown up in at least two states, costing banks nearly $70,000 since the beginning of the year, police said Thursday.
A check clearinghouse said it has warned 142 banks to be on the lookout for the dissolving checks, which may have an unusual odor and feel oily.
The checks have turned up at five or six banks in the Chicago area and at one in Tennessee, said Capt. James Zurawski of the Chicago Police Department's financial crimes division. Authorities also are checking a report of a possible dissolving check in Indiana, Zurawski said.
"The one I've got in front of me looks like a handful of ashes," Zurawski said.
The checks, supposedly drawn on personal accounts at banks in California and Tennessee, have been reported in about 12 incidents in recent weeks, costing banks about $70,000, he said.
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'Some Kind of Chemical'
"What happened was two checks showed up in one of our downtown banks and they literally dissolved," Zurawski said in a telephone interview.
The perpetrator is "using some kind of chemical" that makes the checks disintegrate about three to four hours after they're deposited, he said.
"So far nobody's been harmed by it. The only clue we've got is we've talked to the tellers. One teller says that the check felt oily; another said it had a funny aroma," Zurawski said.
Northern learned on March 4 that two other checks for more than $8,000 dissolved after they were processed by Jewel Food Stores, which offers banking services for some banks' customers.
Officers from the food chain told the bank that a worker saw one of the checks start "to sweat and deteriorate from its borders." The worker tried to prevent further disintegration by putting the check in a paper envelope, but the envelope also began to dissolve, investigators said.
Fram till för ca 2 år sedan så fick vi våra utlägg vi gjorde i jobbet betalda med checkar vilket var lite jobbigt när man behövde gå till banken för att casha in någon lunch man hade tagit kvitto på för €5. Visst gjorde inte så mycket om man hade säg €700 på en månad att hämta ut, men de där gångerna man varit hos en kund i samma stad som företaget ligger i (så ingen milersättning) och käkade en billig lunch så kändes det väldigt omständligt.
Likaså betalas faktiskt soc/sjukersättning och pension ofta ut via checkar här i Irland.
