Attorneys need to watch out for cheque fraud. In the last month, 4 separate cheques that I wrote in separate matters for subpoena's have turned up with the amounts altered from R50 to R4000 plus. I am a cautious attorney, so there are no spaces, lines are drawn after words and we use pens with heavy ink. The one thing each one of these matters had in common thus far is that they were issued at the Johannesburg Magistrates Court and then went to the Sheriff for service. We have been lucky enough that all 4 suspects have in fact, on different days, been arrested.
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