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WTf? Man Opens Bank With Fake Check and Withdrawls $30,000 from Suntrust @Baileys Crossroads
Posted by:
Crooky
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Date: October 09, 2015 09:21PM
How does a bank let this happen? Didn't they check to see the check was real before allowing $30,000 to be withdrawn?
Fairfax County Crime Solvers is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the man responsible for opening a fraudulent bank account and depositing a counterfeit check earlier this year. On Tuesday, January 12, around 2:40 p.m., a man visited the SunTrust Bank, located at 5821 Crossroads Center in the Baileys Crossroads area, and requested to open a business account. Bank employees opened the account for the man and as requested, deposited a check into the new account. Over the coming days, the man withdrew funds from that deposit before the bank was able to determine the check was counterfeit. The loss to the bank was more than $30,000. The bank reported the incident to police and an investigation began on Tuesday, September 22.
The suspect presented a fraudulent driver’s license from Tennessee when he opened the account. Detectives believe this fraud may be linked to other…
Fairfax County Crime Solvers is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the man responsible for opening a fraudulent bank account and depositing a counterfeit check earlier this year. On Tuesday, January 12, around 2:40 p.m., a man visited the SunTrust Bank, located at 5821 Crossroads Center in the Baileys Crossroads area, and requested to open a business account. Bank employees opened the account for the man and as requested, deposited a check into the new account. Over the coming days, the man withdrew funds from that deposit before the bank was able to determine the check was counterfeit. The loss to the bank was more than $30,000. The bank reported the incident to police and an investigation began on Tuesday, September 22.
The suspect presented a fraudulent driver’s license from Tennessee when he opened the account. Detectives believe this fraud may be linked to other…
Re: WTf? Man Opens Bank With Fake Check and Withdrawls $30,000 from Suntrust @Baileys Crossroads
Posted by:
eesh
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Date: October 09, 2015 09:24PM
Wait, this happened in January, and the investigation only started in September?
Re: WTf? Man Opens Bank With Fake Check and Withdrawls $30,000 from Suntrust @Baileys Crossroads
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someone probably screwed up
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Date: October 09, 2015 10:57PM
Could be the organization the counterfeit check was impersonating did an audit and found $30k missing from their books. For big companies, that's actually easy money to lose. So they contacted SunTrust about a check they never wrote, and of course it's on SunTrust, as they never verified the check was real. For amounts that big, they are supposed to take reasonable validation measures.
That's how I would explain the delay; the money would never have been made available for withdrawal unless it had actually come from an unsuspecting party.
That's how I would explain the delay; the money would never have been made available for withdrawal unless it had actually come from an unsuspecting party.