Released: October 22, 2007

Follow the bouncing checks

Source: Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times [Baltimore Sun] (Free Registration)

I’ve never set foot in a PetSmart and haven’t owned a critter since my family’s beloved boxer, Archie, slobbered off this mortal coil sometime during the Nixon years.

So that $38.28 payment to the pet store jumped off the screen as I did my online banking a few Saturdays ago.

There, taunting me from the signature line of Check No. 3512’s electronic image, was a big, flowery, cursive rendition of “Kim Christensen.”

My name, all right, but not my signature - and definitely not the scribble of someone who got straight D’s in penmanship. Not only had my mark been forged, but judging from its feminine flourish, it was by someone who assumed, like untold others before, that Kim must be a girl.

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