Check your bank statements

It pays to be diligent about checking your bank statements. I’m not great about it myself but today I happened to see a debit for $700 for a check I didn’t remember writing. Turns out it was a check for $100 and the banks digital copy showed it was obviously written for $100. I am getting the charge amended but if I hadn’t caught it….?

It’s easy to be complacent and assume that the system won’t screw up but it can and does.