Someone in admin at Forensics Control had openly twittered earlier this month:
@hsbcukbusiness Spoke with call centre re. fraudulent cheques being raised on our old HSBC biz a/c. Didn’t seem interested! Who can we tell?
That post seems to have, um, mysteriously disappeared though! Inevitably because it's not very good publicity for and from a company that specialises in fraud and cybercrime. Oops!
Seems like they've upset someone along the way who is now trying to get revenge with fraudulent cheques in their name!
Obviously you're not going to cash the cheque Richard and I hope you didn't lose out on the book you were selling.
It's a shame there are these kind of people out there ...