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In Reply to: RE: You ever have one of those weeks where every time you turn around, someone's spending money they really posted by Muzikmike on November 02, 2009 at 14:06:48
......Some criminal stole my outgoing mail that contained a $100 check I had written to a doctor's office.....I had put it out in my mailbox on my way to work last Monday........then he "bleached" my check and wrote himself a $500 "personal loan" courtesy of yours truly and went to my bank to cash it......and I didn't find out about it until last Friday ....so this week I am in the process of reconfiguring all my automatic payroll deposits, withdrawals and online payments because I had to close my bank account and open up a new one..........that sucks. And this guy will probably never be caught or prosecuted even though they have him on the surveillance tapes at the bank.......not a high enough priority crime.......sheesh!
Back a few years ago before my mother passed away, she was in a nursing home and one of the nurse's aids stole some checks from her. I had power of attorney and had her checkbook, but when the bank sent new checks, they sent them to the nursing home instead of me. I didn't get up to see her for a few days and get the checks. She stole a pack of checks and then taped up the box again and I never bothered to look at it closely until the bank sent me a note saying she was overdrawn to the tune of a few hundred dollars. The bank made good for the money and it wasn't hard to catch her. She ordered a lot of stuff from mail order catalogs and forged my mom's name, but had it sent to her house. The clincher was she couldn't spell "hundred". The cop brought her into the station were she denied everything until he got a handwriting sample of her writing three hundret dollers. Just like on the canceled checks.Didn't cost me anything more than a lot of time and aggravation. Never heard what happened to her, and I don't really care at this point. If she was desperate for money to feed her kid or by diapers I could have a little sympathy (very little)or at least understand a bit, but she spent $400 at Victoria's Secret, among other things. I had to leave work early to attend her preliminary hearing as a "witness" and she never showed so they had to put out a bench warrant. I was never called back and didn't care. It was between her and Wachovia at that point.
Neil
Edits: 11/02/09
Or did they cover it?
A waitress (I'm guessing) took our card number and bought...get this, over $300 worth of download music! The bank covered it and we never heard anything again.
Years ago, my son (now 31) had a little stick that was the handle of a shoe polish brush...undrilled, painted red. We called it "Ryan red stick" and he absolutely loved this thing. He was about 2 or 3 and took it every where we went. We went to California and forgot Ryan red stick and Ryan cried about it for the two weeks I was there. My wife and he stayed, I had to get home for work, so when I got to PA, I stuck it in the mail.
My father's mail box front had been torn off sometime back and we figure someone saw the package and figured they would get something real neat and took it.
We laughed for years, seeing the guy in our minds opening the package, seeing that painted piece of wood and wondering if the punishment he could have received if caught, was worth that stick!
Hope the guy enjoys his dirty money...the bastard. That means you'll have to watch what you put in your mailbox from now on.
I'd do a check to the same people about a month from now, but buy that ultraviolet paint and make sure he figures there is, indeed, a check inside.
It would be cool to see the guy in a grocery store or somewhere with your dye on his hands!
There is no such thing as too many records.
There is just too little room for them!
I had over 2k withdrawn from my account through my debit card. Mostly charges to I-tunes, songs and a computer it looked like but also the person bought some tools and went to a porn site.
I was reimbursed thank goodness and was given a credit of the amount immediately by the bank while they did their investigation. I'm very leery about using my debit card online but still use it to pay a couple bills.
Presumably the bank will indemnify you for your existing loss, if not the time and effort required to set up a new account in order to be able to close the previous "now suspect" account...
Bill.
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