So I get a call today from our bank & an officer. It appears some person tried to cash a forged check at a casino worth $4xx.xx The officer told me that it was pretty clear it was a forgery and they arrested this person. Now I'm going to figure out how she got our account info, I'm already onto who it most likely was.

+10000000000 for WAMU fraud prevention & the Police!

 

damn good thing they caught them!

 

Good for you and your bank!

I had a good experience with BofA recently. Somebody forged a debit card with my account info. Went to a Target in California and spent a few hundred successfully. Thankfully BofA caught on to it real quick, as I live in Texas. My card was immediately/automatically suspended and the charges were immediately reversed. I called in and verified that it was not me, no more questions asked, new debit card in the mail.

Still not sure how they got my card info.

 

My guess would be randomly generated (odds are pretty low about that) or they got it from online purchases.

 

i once had a telemarketer forge a paycheck by adding a 1 in front of the $95. all that for an extra $100 bucks. he actually waited in his car at the bank drive through long enough for the clerk to call the cops and for them to show up

 

wow v! sorry to hear about that! i'll be curious to hear how they went about getting your info. that's scary! i'm glad they caught them though!

 

We figured out how the info was obtained. Ex-employee received his last paycheck about a week ago, and the people involved in this forgery are friends of his. He claims to have no knowledge of this and that his car got ripped off lol, but we'll let the police figure that out.

 

well it sucks that it happend to you, but i'm relieved they found out who did it before they REALLY went to town and spent $$.

best wishes!

 

desperate crimes for desperate times I guess.. definitely +1 on WAMU and the authorities to spot this.. glad it ended painlessly for you

 

we have seen an increase in crime at our businesses since the economy tanked... both locations (seattle and portland) have been hit in the last 30 days...

 

Been there done that V it's a hassle dealing all the unnecessary BS.. and in the end rarely do those people get what they deserve..

 

Needs desperate measures..

 

Sorry you had to deal with that - such a hassle, but so happy for you they caught on - great job WaMu.

 

i had this happen. an ex employee's boyfriend forged three checks for about 5k or so total. bank teller cashed them. we couldn't believe it when i got the checks with hand written company name on tap and "SPELLED" incorrectly. i never lost the money columbia bank covered the funds. the teller had to be blind to cash those things LOL.

I've since changed all of my checks to day before verification. So the checks aren't good until approved the day before by my company and the bank. little bit of a hassle for my controller but should be safer in the end.


crime will only continue to rise until this economy changes. unfortunate but true. when 100k extra people are out of work they'll have to do something.

PJ too bad on your breakin's I've always been a firm believer pety crime would drop if pawn shops were illegal. where would they sell the crap? craigs list and all those places are too exposed.

 

Heh I guess this didn't go as well as I hoped. WaMu ended up freezing our account without notifying us ... which in turn caused a bunch of checks that were in the mail to bounce... and we just found out about it... geeze what a mess & hassle to get this crap figured out after one stupid person tries to forge a check....