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Busted Encore: Can you cash a cheque with a stop payment on it?
Monday, April 2, 2012, 7:00 AM
To celebrate our upcoming one-hour Busted special, we're posting some of our favourite Busted segments from years past.

You may think that putting a stop payment on a cheque prevents someone from cashing it -- but Erica Johnson has a surprise for you. A 100-year-old law is being used by some cheque-cashing outlets to make the writer of the cheque pay up -- stop payment or not.
Watch out for phony Japan relief charities
Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 8:40 AM    2
Sad to say, but natural disasters like the Japan quake can bring out the best -- and the worst -- in people.  Now the RCMP are warning about phony charities sprouting up in the wake of the quake.
Chip and pin and forget
Friday, November 12, 2010, 10:50 AM    25
It's a weekday evening at downtown Toronto grocery store, and the checkout line is filled with pre-occupied Gen Xers heading home in a hurry, mostly armed with prepared hot deli food and frozen dinners. But there's a problem at the cashier: as a customer begins to pay with his debit card, he finds there's already a card left in the terminal.
'Lawless Loans' update: MoneyGram pays $18 million to settle FTC fraud charges
Thursday, April 29, 2010, 4:35 PM    1
American and Canadian authorities have have investigated and arrested 65 fraudsters, and received redress worth $18 million from the company they worked for, MoneyGram, for their involvement in an advanced-fee loan scam that Marketplace reported on last year.

MoneyGram International, one of the world's biggest money transfer services, paid for $18 million in cheques that were sent to U.S. consumers yesterday who have been victims of scams involving their service.
What, no haggling on my warranty?
Thursday, February 11, 2010, 1:00 PM    7

logitech.jpgIs good customer service so rare today that when it happens, it's news?

Certainly, that would seem the case, judging by the number of and interest in stories about bad service with large corporations.
Getting smarter about your money
Friday, November 27, 2009, 11:59 AM
Did you lose a bunch of money in the economic meltdown last year?  Or do you feel smug because you've never bothered to save anyway, so you had nothing to lose in the first place?  Well, either way, there's a new online tool out this week designed to help all of us figure out better ways to save and invest.
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