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well it all started a year ago when Judy
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block wrote a check for $625 and
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deposited it later someone got a hold of
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that check managed to cash it again and
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again for a total of $20,000 in deposits
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two investigator Dorothy Tucker wants to
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know how could that happen
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I wrote a check to myself like she often
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does but last year when Judy blocked
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wrote a check for a few hundred dollars
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thieves got away with a few thousand I
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was shocked I mean I I was totally
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dumbfounded you'd all begin with this is
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a carbon copy of a $625 check black
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wrote in 2017 to pay the escrow for her
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real estate taxes the check never left
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my hand it went from me to the bank the
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six hundred and twenty five dollar check
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came out of Judy's account here at Bank
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of America she literally walked across
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the street to deposit it there at Chase
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a few months after the six hundred and
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twenty five dollar withdrawal in her
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Bank of America's statement Judy noticed
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some suspicious large withdrawals she
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never made here's the first check that
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was written for $2,200 the second check
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was for 2300 both checks had Judy's
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signature that is my signature signature
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but they were made out to Bruce Rahl you
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know no I don't have no idea why yes and
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the check was cashed in New Jersey at
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Wells Fargo Bank so the two real estate
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brokers did what anyone would do they
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called Bank of America for answers and
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they're telling me they don't know right
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now what do you mean they don't know
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somebody get into my account
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you guys I gave you guys my money in
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good faith hoping you would take care of
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it for me now I find out there's $4,500
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missing from my account why this is a
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new variation on a very old theme we
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turn to fraud expert William Cressy
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because the banks wouldn't explain to
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the blocks or us how thieves got their
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hands on the blocks original check every
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check that goes through a bank now is
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being scanned and the image is stored
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now someone at the bank could have gone
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in and absconded with these images
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somebody on the outside could have
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hacked into the bank's computer system
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and stolen these images in here
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something else you don't want to hear if
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they were able to hack into or get
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access to a check that was being stored
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by the bank they probably got a hold of
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a lot more once thieves have the image
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Cressy says it's easy for them to create
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a fake check by changing the check
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number the person is paid to and the
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amount then deposit it into any bank
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across the country simply by using a
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bank's mobile app and the amount of
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might be able to extract that money or
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transfer to another bank account and may
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be transferred or even overseas
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Jeremy Bannerman is a threat
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intelligence security expert who thinks
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banks need better software to detect
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fraudulent checks like a font being
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irregular or the the check number being
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very much way out of sync
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as for the blocks the thief tried to
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cash a lot of phony checks via mobile
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bank apps
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Angelina Clarice for 3900 Brenda Gomez
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$3,800 altogether 18 fake checks
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fortunately after the blocks filed a
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claim with the Bank of America the bank
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didn't pay on the rest but when the
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blocks tried to get a refund on the two
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that were cashed the $4,500
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it wasn't easy we had to file a police
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report I got all those papers right here
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that we had to fill out in May 2018 the
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blocks got this letter from Bank of
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America saying it never got the money
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back from Wells Fargo so we closed that
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file there it is one year later
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September and we have no money no calls
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we have nothing
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as a show of good faith Bank of America
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should put the money back into the
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blocks account and they did we contacted
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the bank on Friday and by the next
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Monday the blocks had their money back
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oh we're jumping around like you know
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winning the lotteries if it was a few
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whither I never got our money Dorothy
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Tucker CBS 2 investigators Bank of
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America would not talk about security
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measures or this specific case other
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than to say they paid the claim
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Wells Fargo told us security is a top
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priority it has procedures to verify
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customers through all channels including
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mobile banking Chase says it holds the
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blocks check including a didge
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image for 90 days and after that both
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were destroyed which is standard
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procedure a year it takes them to get
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their money it's amazing and it was nice
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I mean you would expect the bank would
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pay you back but it's nice to get your
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money behind Ali nevertheless I wish we
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could
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