need a sort code address

[saintrichy]

I need an address for a bank with the sort code 20-99-11, someone is claiming they have not received a cheque of mine but the cheque was cashed there.

[CheekyChops]

How would you having the address help? If you tell your bank that the payee is claiming not to have received the funds, they will look into where it was paid in and into whose account.

Even if you had the address and wrote/phoned the Bank in question, they wouldn't tell you anything.

[stevie21]

If you know the cheque was cashed there, do you have a photocopy of the cheque? If so, the bank name and address will be stamped onto the back of the cheque.

As above, if your story is literally true (as likely as "God invented cricket as a punishment, just for me") then you would have no involvement beyond speaking to your bank and to the payee. You would have no call whatsoever to speak to the other bank.
None.

[MalinCanad]

Hey saintrichy,

Very tricky I'm afraid. Especially as you appear to have been given or found an invalid SC 20-99-11. Where did you get that from?

Anyways, the crux of it is that YOUR bank (who is your bank by the way? If it's another Barclays then this gets a lot (well - a bit) easier!) are the ones who will need to initiate a trace on who received the funds.

Here's the fun part - they WON'T TELL YOU!! It's a nightmare trying to get this info sometimes - especially if it's two different banks.

If it's Barclays to Barclays then the staff should at least tell each other what's going on (they still won't tell YOU the receviers information) and if they think it has gone to a wrong account they may well contact that person about it to try and get their OK to take the funds back.

If you bank somewhere other than Barclays then you're probably in for a long wait to get back not much information! A typical response is "The funds were deposited to account on the due-date" which basically means they gave your money to SOMEONE on the day it was due to go to them. They don't really care if it's the person you intended it for!

I do ramble don't I?! I know too much about this stuff but none of it's very helpful!

Bottom line - this can be brutal and if you genuinely think a fraud has taken place you probably should go to the police at the same time as the bank are investigating!

[karlossus]

Hi there, Did you manage to find the bank relating to the sort code? As I would also like to know as I have a cheque that has (apparently) not been received by the intended recipient but has been cleared to someone�s account with the sort code 20-99-11. Hmmm?? There is something suspicious about this sort code. PLEASE REPLY Many Thanks

[saintrichy]

I did not find out where the sort code related to, I think it might be thier head office/clearing dept. ?. My situation was resolved when, following my banks advice, I posted my copy cheque to the payee to take to his bank, the next day the issue was resolved.

[Stortman2005]

You can try this link to validate the code. You only get about 10 tries before your ip address is locked out.

[Stortman2005]

Link is : http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/demos/happy/validator. aspx

[Phil100]

You could try checking here:-

https://www.unifiedsoftware.co.uk/demo/bankvaluk/getbranchdetails.php

You get 300 hits. You have to register first because they use offical banking data.