Day 1: Security
Check's Recovery Center receives returned check directly from your bank
and enters it into our proprietary, computerized Collection Database and
National Check Network's database;
Day 3: Security
Check mails a personal letter to the check writer informing them that they
mistakenly bounced a check to you. The letter includes a return envelope
and instructs the check writer how to pay the check to our Collection Center.
Our payment options include money orders, credit cards, personal checks
or autopay.
Day 14-99:
If payment has not been received, Security Check begins daily telephone
calls to the check writer informing them that they must pay their check.
Day 30: Security
Check mails a second notice to the check writer and reports the check writer
to various credit bureaus, Equifax, Trans Union, etc., temporarily effecting
the check writer's credit.
Day 60: Security
Check generates and mails a "Final Attempt to Collect" letter for checks
returned for insufficient funds.
After the fourteenth day, telephone
calls are made to the check writer throughout the process, and every call
is documented as to the exact response/ outcome.
After the ninety-nine day process
is complete, additional collection efforts may continue either electronically
or through the legal system.