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 07:00 pm (UTC)I wonder if it'd be worth reporting this to some state or federal law agency? Not for them to act on per se, but if there is indeed an organization behind it, it may spread quite widely, and the more data points they have, the better chance they'll have of nailing the culprits.
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Date: 2017-02-13 09:44 am (UTC)The bank said it will conduct a full investigation and let me know if they need any further assistance from me. The recipient bank did say that the forger tried 3 other deposits from other people's stolen checks that same day...