[153700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear Linkedin,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Jun 10 18:46:40 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20437.5520.313077.906639@world.std.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:44:12 -0700
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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:
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> 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*.
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> Then thousands of dollars of cashed checks began appearing.
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> What was amusing was they each had info like my driver's license
> number and date of birth carefully hand-printed on them.
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> EXCEPT, it wasn't *my* driver's license # or date of birth, it was all
> just kinda random.
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> 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.
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> I agree it's all a matter of percentages but it says something about
> putting photos on credit cards etc.
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> 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.
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> * 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.
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> --=20
> -Barry Shein
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