Things Not To Do

[green_amber]

First of all, do not win major foreign competitions which give prizes in US dollar cheques

Comments

[marsgov]

Didn't I get email from you last week about this? Something about an account that you had in Nigeria, and you needed help repatriating the money from Nigeria to the US, and you'd give me twenty percent for my trouble if I'd just give you my bank account information?

[alexmc]

just today opened a citibank us dollar account so that I can cash us dollar cheques. Sadly can't do anything about charges or exchange rate.

[green_amber]

How do they let you take money out? cashline card?

[alexmc]

good question. To be honest I was going to keep the money in dollars until I need to spend it in the US or on US goods.

Sorry if that wasn't helpful. It was just a coincidence I opened the account today.

[green_amber]

No, no, it's v helpful, that's what I wanted to do too, but to me it seemed pretty silly to have a US $ account where I could'nt withdraw money from it by cashline as I needed it in the Sates. If anyone knows of such an account..!

the alt would have been to open an actual US bank a/c I guess, but my recolectionfrom trying that in vancouver in 93 was that it a nightmare for a foreign national, plus US banks actually charge bank charges for simply having it open..

[steer]

Marilyn Manson albums have never inspired me to kill.

Now the music of, say, Gilbert and Sullivan, Bryan Adams or Phil Collins, they provoke a near murderous rage in instants.

[guyinahat]

Sorry to hear about that darlin'

You want me to crash all their systems next time I'm in?

I'll get every teller's terminal in the country printing 'don't fuck with Lill' on repeat until eternity.

[green_amber]

He he

sounds good to me

you got your cowboy hat on obviously :-)

[guyinahat]

always wearin' it on the inside pardner...

What to do

[andrewducker]

1) Get them to give you a new cheque.
2) Put cheque into bank account
3) Instantly take out the whole thing in altogether superior form of currency (Pounds, Yuan, lira)
4) Walk away in slow motion while Michael-Bay style explosions occur behind you.

Alternatively, as you're going to have to get the money reissued, see if they can do an international currency transfer to a UK bank and skip all the horrors of having to sort out a US bank account.