first time.. hopefully last
Feb. 10th, 2017 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceagleIn all my years, I've never been subjected to a check being stolen... but it finally happened. Same thing that happened to another friend a few months ago... someone intercepts a letter you send to pay a bill, then tries to forge it ;/
I'm now suspecting that there might be a crime ring around here doing it...
*sighs*
So luckily the bank where it was deposited caught it and let me know, but it will still be 7 to 10 days before the money gets refunded to my bank... plus.. I had to close my old account and make a new one, so that took a while... and in a strange unfortunate coincidence, I had just reordered checks, so I couldn't even use a single one of them.. loss of about $75 (I ordered a lot)... *sighs again* ... and in Economics if you include the OpportunityCost as well, that's probably another $50 or so... an overall loss of over a hundred smackers.. rarrrrrr... about a full day's pay lost just due to someone trying hard NOT to make an honest living ;/
I'll be mailing my checks directly from Inside the post office from now on... no more blue drop boxes...
I'm now suspecting that there might be a crime ring around here doing it...
*sighs*
So luckily the bank where it was deposited caught it and let me know, but it will still be 7 to 10 days before the money gets refunded to my bank... plus.. I had to close my old account and make a new one, so that took a while... and in a strange unfortunate coincidence, I had just reordered checks, so I couldn't even use a single one of them.. loss of about $75 (I ordered a lot)... *sighs again* ... and in Economics if you include the OpportunityCost as well, that's probably another $50 or so... an overall loss of over a hundred smackers.. rarrrrrr... about a full day's pay lost just due to someone trying hard NOT to make an honest living ;/
I'll be mailing my checks directly from Inside the post office from now on... no more blue drop boxes...
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Date: 2017-02-11 09:33 am (UTC)Man that suck, sorry to hear this crap is going on. We had someone stealing mail on our street recently. Didn't get anything form us at least. Got a locking mailbox now to make that BS harder...
Mako
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Date: 2017-02-11 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-12 04:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-13 09:32 am (UTC)I also have enjoyed some nice designs on checks over the years too.. I sorta get a smile when I can write a check with a pleasant image printed in the background... I've had Disneyland ones, animal ones, cartoon ones... in fact I went without a nice design for about a decade and decided to give it a try again with this batch... such a freaky coincidence,..... In fact, I initially thought it mighta been someone at the check ordering company, but when I saw the forged check it clearly had nothing to do with them.
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Date: 2017-02-13 09:29 am (UTC)We should have Wile E Coyote build a big capture net on the porch...