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So one of my Michigan customers sent me a check to Wisconsin made out in my company’s name just found out that the check was cashed in a Virginia bank and was endorsed by a fake signature with my wife’s name. I was told that my customer is not responsible and I am on the hook for now because they stole my money. How is this even possible? How can a bank in Virginia even try to cash this without someone having an account? How can they deposit a business check with a personal signature? Only $7100 but this is fucked up
 

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That sounds really fucked up and like you said if you don’t have an account there no way they would cash it. So much fishing and theft going on it’s crazy. I use a payroll company and just had a nightmare with someone changing my payroll accounts . I finally got reimbursed but total shit show . Only 7100 doesn’t matter the amount just the fact they can get away with this is crazy . Nothing safe I now totally get why my dad never wanted QuickBooks online and stuck to writing and mailing checks. Where there’s a will there’s a way
 

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So one of my Michigan customers sent me a check to Wisconsin made out in my company’s name just found out that the check was cashed in a Virginia bank and was endorsed by a fake signature with my wife’s name. I was told that my customer is not responsible and I am on the hook for now because they stole my money. How is this even possible? How can a bank in Virginia even try to cash this without someone having an account? How can they deposit a business check with a personal signature? Only $7100 but this is fucked up
These bastards are clever for sure. Nothing can be trusted any more.
 

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That sucks, I hate seeing stories like this....

This summer my wife had 40K stolen out of her business checking account. Some bitch went into the bank and started depositing fake checks into my wifes account (this was in effort to build a relationship with the teller) then turned around the next day and withdrew funds in large amounts. So not only was she able to withdraw large amounts, but once the checks started bouncing it eventually overdrew the account.

She was sitting on the beach when the bank called her and was like Did you just withdraw a 11,000 money order in Cambridge, MA? My wife was like ahh hell no! Luckily the bank put every penny bank and the local police eventually caught her.

Pretty brazen to walk into a bank and commit fraud with all the fucking cameras they have! The cops were showing my wife pictures of her to see if she knew who the woman was.
 
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That sucks, I hate seeing stories like this....

This summer my wife had 40K stolen out of her business checking account. Some bitch went into the bank and started depositing fake checks into my wifes account (this was in effort to build a relationship with the teller) then turned around the next day and withdrew funds in large amounts. So not only was she able to withdraw large amounts, but once the checks started bouncing it eventually overdrew the account.

She was sitting on the beach when the bank called her and was like Did you just withdraw a 11,000 money order in Cambridge, MA? My wife was like ahh hell no! Luckily the bank put every penny bank and the local police eventually caught her.

Pretty brazen to walk into a bank and commit fraud with all the fucking cameras they have! The cops were showing my wife pictures of her to see if she knew who the woman was.
I would suggest your wife set up a notification system with her bank for her account. Any large deposit or withdrawal from my accounts and I get a text and email alerting me. I assumed this would be common practice with most people. Glad she got all the money back.
 

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Fucked up stories , many people are just scumbags

I see scammers all the time

Pretending they work for the IRS
Tax fraud
Money order fraud
Postal fraud
Credit card fraud
Collections fraud
Elder abuse fraud

It just goes on and on
 

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One time a client came into my office with a IRS collections letter fraud

So I called the guy and had him on speaker phone. I said

"Are you proud of the man in the mirror? Does your family know what you do for a living?"

He responded

"is that all you got?". Then he said to me "go get a job" . No joke, he actually told me to get a job and then hung up.

My client started laughing, he went home happy and relieved
 

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I would suggest your wife set up a notification system with her bank for her account. Any large deposit or withdrawal from my accounts and I get a text and email alerting me. I assumed this would be common practice with most people. Glad she got all the money back.
She did. And I put alerts on our joint accounts as well.
 

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She did. And I put alerts on our joint accounts as well.
It's a great tool, we have it in place for all of our personal stuff. I recommend it. Unfortunately, my wife knows every time I make a charge :lmao:
 

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