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01-15-2009, 08:07 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: NEPA
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What would you do ???
If money was put in your bank account by mistake ?? Like the Bloomsburg couple ?
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01-15-2009, 08:29 PM
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Member
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: PA
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Well since I was gainfully employed by a bank for 12 years, I KNOW to call the bank and tell them about the error. You really have to be naive to think that it won't be noticed and corrected. I might take $20.00 out of the ATM before I told them though...just to have a written record of a balance that high in my account! lol...
I still can't believe they thought they would get away with it...
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01-15-2009, 09:49 PM
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Senior Member
Status:
"Confidently Confused...."
(set 20 days ago)
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Lake Ariel Pa
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kvysmom
Well since I was gainfully employed by a bank for 12 years, I KNOW to call the bank and tell them about the error. You really have to be naive to think that it won't be noticed and corrected. I might take $20.00 out of the ATM before I told them though...just to have a written record of a balance that high in my account! lol...
I still can't believe they thought they would get away with it...
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I agree...I worked for banks for 22 years....they had to be complete idiots to think they would get away with that. I personally always return overpayments or cash errors. One time I had to practically beg the cashier to take the money back....the poor thing was so bad in math that she honestly couldn't figure out what the mistake was and how to correct it. It was kinda embarrassing. |
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01-15-2009, 10:03 PM
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Call me when a new mod takes over....
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Move it to a savings account, let your bank know about it immediately, and don't touch it. Maybe you'd get to keep any interest that accrued on it in the interim for the "inconvenience".
Jobs will be lost for putting the bank at risk like that in any event, honest teller mistake or not. That couple only made it worse.
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01-16-2009, 02:00 AM
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Never Looked Back
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: PA
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I'm so honest. I have been going to banks for various jobs and really gotten to know the people at them, and consider some friends. It's happened where I was given like an extra 5 or 10 bucks and I always took it back, in knowing that the same favor would be returned to me if it happened. I've found an envelope with a few hundred in it at work and returned it to the person. You just feel better I think, and if it happened to me, I would hope I got it back as well.
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01-16-2009, 11:37 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Scranton , PA
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I would contact the bank immediately...honesty is the best policy!  |
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01-16-2009, 11:43 AM
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City Boy in The 'Burbs
Status:
"Reston: Where Snow Plowing Isn't "Progressive" Enough"
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Reston, VA : We're too "progressive" for sidewalks or streetlights.
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I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing that I could potentially be placing others' jobs in jeopardy if their financial institution were to become fiscally-insolvent on my behalf of my avarice. I suppose I'm the rare "honest" salesperson.  |
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01-16-2009, 12:02 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Absolutely give it back. Stealing is stealing, no matter how you got it.
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01-16-2009, 01:50 PM
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Scranton is Dead.
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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I once found an envelope with over $100 in it at work. A customer had left it on the table by mistake and had left by the time I found it. Amazingly enough, I handed it to my manager in case they came back for it. Even more amazingly, after a month, no one claimed it *and* my manager gave it to me to keep. I was sure at least he would have taken it! I think he was so shocked that I turned it in that he couldnt bring himself to take the money.
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01-16-2009, 07:14 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Island of long
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3 years ago $1300 showed up in my checking. I wasnt sure where it came from so I moved it into my savings account. The bank took it back 4 days later. Whatever you do dont spend it b/c you will be paying it back.
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