Kiting is when you write a check on an account without having funds. You receive cash without having the funds to back it up.

Then you are commiting a crime known as check kiting.

Kiting is writing a bad check to get money to deposit in a bank account to cover another outstanding check. While this practice used to be very common, it is much harder to do now that so many companies process checks electronically. To prevent kiting, a company should process all checks at the end of the day.

It is usually a state crime or may be prosecuted federally as bank fraud.

Rebecca Kiting was born on 1991-05-08.