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Today earlier this afternoon, i went to a branch of my bank and made a $500 cash deposit. I didn't realize until just now that my account only shows that i made a $400 deposit. I know for a fact that i made a $500 deposit. I double counted the money and marked $500 on the deposit slip. My bank never places a hold on cash deposits and my account was in good standing so there's no funny business there. I think that the teller stole $100 from me and didn't think i would realize. I think she slipped $100 in her pocket and only credited my account for $400. If she thought that i wouldn't notice she was somewhat right because i didn't notice until now, a few hours later. My bank is closed now so i have to wait until tomorrow to call them but what i want to know is has a similar situation ever happened to anyone before? And if so how was it resolved? I still have my copy of the deposit slip that i marked as $500 deposit. What i'm going to do is call the bank first thing tomorrow and tell them what happened and i'm also going to find out the name of this teller and file a police report in the city the bank is located in. Right moves on my part?
You should have checked your receipt before you walked out. At my bank, you have to sign for ALL deposits before you leave, that way, if you see a descrepancy, you can have the teller correct it before you leave. But, I know hindsight is 20-20.
Talk to the branch manager tomorrow. They take teller errors VERY seriously. One error from a teller at my bank, and they're out the door. No second chances.
Bank teller "errors" are more common than people think.
I've had to threaten to move all my accounts to another bank to get the bank to fess up to not one but three bank teller errors that I proved. Later I noted that all three tellers were gone from that banks. Two were moved one was fired.
So it pays to always check your receipts before you leave bank property. Be sure to call attention to any errors before you leave!!!!
If that fails call the bank manager then the police. Theft is theft.........
I think i may be facing an uphill battle on this one the more i think about it. It seems clear to me that this was blatent theft on the tellers part. This was a branch of my bank that is located in one of the "big box" stores. I was doing some shopping and did the deposit on the way out. It was a little hole in the wall, the place was only like 10x10 big, and she was the only bank employee there. I'm wondering if there was even a camera at the place. I'll tell you one thing i'll never bank anyplace except big branch locations from now on that have multiple tellers and managers present and i'm going to be extra cautious and always triple check everything i do at the bank from now on. I'm really more concerned with the employee being fired at this point than my money so this dosen't happen to anyone else. Who knows how often this activity has been going on. If the employee got 1 person each day for $100 that's $36,500 extra in her pocket tax free in a year. I was reading stories i found online of tellers being charged with theft. One got away with $100,000 before she got caught.
I responded because this has happened to me before but it was a $10 error on the bank tellers part.
Some years back I went home after depositing some money and looked at the receipt and realized it was short. So I called the next day and the bank was very nice, did an investigation and found there was no error so......after that I always double check and watch during cash transactions with the teller.
I have caught 1 almost error if I wouldn't have been on alert it would have happened again. I'm not saying anyone was trying to steal from me but human error has got to be expected; we are not perfect.
Even a "hole in the wall" branch should have a camera. I think it's the law for banks to have them.
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