[UA] Cons to Watch out for

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

How ya gonna get the deposit slips printed? They use
the same MICR numbers as the ones on the bottom of the
checks.  Actually, if you get ahold of somebody's
checks, you can just have a whole bunch printed for
you by Deluxe or, even better, whichever company
prints the checks.  All a check company usually
requires is a voided check.  You can cross out the
address and write in your own on it and the check
company will simply print you some new checks and mail
it (you don't usually have to pay on the same
account.)  You can't change the name on the checks,
though, because the check printer will call to verify
name changes.  Illinois has some pretty tight bank &
check fraud security guidelines, so this dodge
probably wouldn't work there.

It would be a lot easier to just use a bank which
provides blank deposit slips.  Then all you need to do
is use that one voided check to fill in the customer's
account number and make withdrawls. They'll check your
ID, but not closely enough to spot a fake one.  This
actually happened to me once at BoA.  It took months
to get it resolved and royally screwed me over.

--- Bailey Watts <didi_mau at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Since we've been talking about cons I've recently
> found one that's pretty 
> damn sweet, though I would not be able to pull it
> off because of my sense of 
> ethics.
> 
> Step one: get a hold of someone's bank account
> number.  Should be no problem 
> since it's printed on all the checks.  The bank
> should be one of a chain and 
> not a small time bank.  If the check has the address
> printed on it that's 
> much better.
> Step two: get some deposit slips printed with that
> accoutn number on them.
> Step three: Standard mail fraud scam.  Have all
> checks made out to the 
> person whose account number you have.
> Step four: deposit money in their account, but
> certainly less cash received. 
>   As a general rule tellers don't ask for ID when
> making a deposit like they 
> would when cashing checks.  Use a branch that's not
> the nearest one to their 
> address so noone is the wiser.
> Step Five: keep it up and diversify with other
> people's account numbers.  
> Don't visit the mailbox (rented in a varient of the
> other person's name) if 
> things look too crazy.
> 
> If you get caught pretend to just be a bagman and
> offer testimony in 
> exchange for reduced sentence or immunity. 
> Implicate the person who got all 
> that money put into their bank account.
>
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