Dear Linkedin,

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Sun Jun 10 22:44:12 UTC 2012


In such a circumstance I use the following:

"Close this account. Either send me a check for the remaining balance or
deposit into my newly created account at your institution. Whichever you
prefer."

Owen

On Jun 10, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Barry Shein wrote:

> 
> A few years ago I had a checkbook stolen. The genius bank branch
> decided it was sufficient to just print new checks starting at a much
> higher number and "put it in the system" rather than cancel the
> account number. I protested but hey so long as they were responsible
> for any fraud*.
> 
> Then thousands of dollars of cashed checks began appearing.
> 
> What was amusing was they each had info like my driver's license
> number and date of birth carefully hand-printed on them.
> 
> EXCEPT, it wasn't *my* driver's license # or date of birth, it was all
> just kinda random.
> 
> Which led us to believe (when talking to bank security) that they just
> have friends who work as cashiers, these were all at places like
> Wal-Mart, big retail stores, who just accept the bad checks for a cut.
> 
> I agree it's all a matter of percentages but it says something about
> putting photos on credit cards etc.
> 
> I had something similar happen with business checks (a small vendor
> was burglarized), similar result and conclusion: The crooks were
> working with bank tellers or other insiders, they even knew the magic
> amounts at each branch beyond which more security checks kick in,
> again, according to the bank security people I was clearing this up
> with.
> 
> 
> * I sort of regretted that because they managed to burn up quite a few
> hours of my time when it all went bad. They've got you at that point,
> show up here, show up now, fill out all these affidavits, etc or we
> won't cover the fraud.
> 
> 
> -- 
>        -Barry Shein
> 
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