Thumbprint Signature Program Helps Combat Check Fraud

Check fraud costs financial institutions and their customers millions of dollars each year. In a statewide effort to help combat crime and protect consumers, LBA has developed the Thumbprint Signature Program. The program is very simple. Any individual (non-customers) who wished to cash a check at a participating financial institution or retailer is asked to apply their right thumb to an inkless fingerprinting device and place their thumbprint between the memo and signature lines of the check. If fraudulent activity does occur, law enforcement agencies will have these thumbprints as evidence to use in apprehending those responsible. The Thumbprint Signature Program is just another way the LBA is committed to helping financial institutions and their customers eliminate check fraud. Click here for more information or to place an order.