I would have to agree.
I had this happen. Someone responded to an ad I have for a home guy asking me to hold on to it while he mails me a check. I was asking $300 for the gym. The check gets here and it is for $2,100. It is even a back fake, the ink was faded, and the signature was printed from a bubble jet... really bad.
Anyway, the check has Wachovia stamped on it so I call them. They confirm it is a fraud and tell me they will be contacting the owner of the account to warn them. I ask them what I should do with the check and the person on the phone stumbles for a minute. I say, should I just take it into the security department for my bank, they say yes.
When I take the obviously fake check with legitimate account information on it to my bank branch, the guy behind the counter doesn't even ask me for my name. No information is exchanged. How do they expect to investigate this crime?
Whoever wrote this check will walk because no agency involved bothered to gather information. This makes me sick!
-Nick
