Not a fun day today

[Husker]

Wife got a call at work, just after noon. It was a bank teller. Someone was trying to cash a $2000 check at our banks main branch. Needless to say, it was not written by us.

What a day. Spent half of it at the bank, closing things out, rolling accounts over, calling check clearing house companies, fixing up automatic electronic transfers, redoing direct deposits, redoing online payment sites (paypal, firepay, neteller, etc). yuck. Especially when we use almost no checks at all.

The idiots were able to cash 2 checks (at bank locations??!!) last Friday. A $100 then a $630. We (I at least) are 98% sure what happened. Last Friday morning, my daughter hit me up for a schoolastic book order. I could not find any checks at all, and went downstairs and got a new checkbook from the box. Filled out the first check, and off she went to school. Now our son, who just graduated several weeks ago (will in going to college in March), and since graduation has done nothing but work, and play Warcraft on his laptop. Well, it looks like Friday about noon, one of the local hoods and a friend of his (who we assume is an even worse hood), showed up, and our son let them in for a second. Well, off walks the checkbook, and the rest will be worked out in the coming months.

I hope that little dirt bag gets sent up for this. $2000 is felony material. I am pretty sure the $630 is also (I think damage about $400 is a felony here in this state).

Just glad the idoits went to banks to cash these, which is about the stupidest thing to do, since the bank has software which flashes the signature cards (I know that, because I wrote that software when I worked for the bank, about 10 years ago), and did not try to simply write dozens of checks at places that use those electronic check authorizatoins. That would have been BAD, as then we would have to fight to clear up things, and to get our money back, and those check authorization companies are like jackels and come after the account holder in cases like this. Being that the bank cashed the checks, the bank is the one out the money, not us. They obviously broke protocol, the signatures were that obviously bogus.

Funny thing is the one that got caught (who does not appear to be one of them that actually stole the checks), should be on Americas stupidest crimials show (or something like that). He goes into a main bank, up an escalator to the 3rd floor, goes to a teller to cash a check. The teller takes the check, sees the signature problem, walks back to an office behind the counter to call my wife, talks to her, returns to the counter, and tells the guy to have a seat in the lobby (which he does). The teller then goes across the lobby to the branch managers office, informs her of what is up, security is called, and they nab the dum arse, just twiddling his thumbs. Hmmmm. In the immortal words of bugs bunny "What a marrooon"

H.

[Uncle Jesse]

Glad you got that worked out, sounds like a complete nightmare. And what a genius criminal...

[Husker]

Cant say my son was a genious in this either. He not only let those 2 in, he loaned his cell phone to the dum ass who stole them, and that dum ass called the first person to cash one of them. That person was who it was made out to, and for $100.

However, phone records like that, simply put more nails into the coffin of these jerks.

H.

[blanikdog]

A friend of mine - who was a bank teller - had a girlfriend who wanted an expensive bayside house but they couldn't afford it.
To save the relationship he stuffed ten grand in his trousers and deposited in another branch of the same bank. He was arrested by lunch time the next day, and got a good behaviour bond for extenuating circumstances and, I guess, gross stupidity.

His girlfriend pissed him off cos he now had a record!!!! hahahahahaah