ich weiß noch, damals dacht ich "hä, kite? wie paßt denn Kite da rein?"
neben Drachen heißt das auch was mit Scheckbetrug, also aus der Finanzwelt.
hab dazu mal was rauskopiert. schätze, das wissen viele nicht:
Check kiting is a form of
check fraud, involving taking advantage of the
float to make use of non-existent funds in a
checking or other
bank account. In this way, instead of being used as a
negotiable instrument, checks are misused as a form of unauthorized
credit.
Kiting is commonly defined as intentionally writing a check for a value greater than the account balance from an account in one bank, then writing a check from another account in another bank, also with
non-sufficient funds, with the second check serving to cover the non-existent funds from the first account.
[1] The purpose of check kiting is to falsely inflate the balance of a checking account in order to allow written checks that would otherwise bounce rather than clear.
[2] If the account is
not planned to be replenished, then the fraud is colloquially known as
paper hanging.
[3] If writing a check with insufficient funds is done with the expectation they will be covered by payday– in effect a
payday loan– it is called
playing the float.
[4]
Now, pairing this word and meaning to what happened the day prior to 9/11 where Rumsfeld announced that there was over 2.3 Trillion dollars missing from the budget, this definition is VERY INTERESTING... indeed.
Kite - is also an Egyptian bird - which was linked with Isis -
Isis is said in
Ancient Egyptian mythology to have taken the form of a kite in various situations in order to resurrect the dead.
