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No sucky customers here. Just ones who are dumb, naive or confused.
Obviously by my name, I work at a bank. Which means I see scams. Which can be a good thing. If I see them quickly enough, then that's one person who isn't being caught by the blasted things.
You know you didn't really win the lottery, right? (And if you did, WHY wouldn't they take the taxes out first? Why would they send you the check and then ask for you to wire the taxes back?)
And that relative you never heard of before didn't leave you his fortune. (Again, exactly WHY would you have to pay someone first to get your inheritance? Outside of your own lawyer, perhaps?)
And I know the economy is rough. Shouldn't that tell you that a sit at home and do nothing while they pay you to run "paychecks" through your account is a little too easy to be a legitimate job? (And exactly WHY would they need you to run the checks through your own personal account?)
As for the "secret shopper" scams. ONE, they do not hire via e-mail. TWO, neither Western Union nor MoneyGram use outside secret shoppers. THREE, legitimate secret shopper companies pay you a PAYCHECK. They do not send you a large check, tell you to keep your portion of it, do a few small purchases here and there and then Western Union the remainder to who knows where. They also tend to either give you a company credit card or (more likely) have you fill out reimbursement forms to get your money back.
And WHY would that wonderful guy you met online need to send you a check to cash and wire back to him before he can get tickets to come meet you? How does that even make sense?
The one that had me in near tears was the elderly, a bit mind-fuzzled and very sweet lady who sent over $30,000 to "bill collectors" who kept calling and telling her she owed them the money. Our fraud department is working with her to try to prevent her from sending out even more money and trying to get her help. She's so confused, and keeps on being convinced that she actually needs to send out this money.
We cannot prevent her from using her own money, so the only thing we can do is advise. She let us contact her son about the issue and the bastard is doing exactly NOTHING. Damn it, if you don't want to put in effort to help out your mother's finances yourself, get her set up with a payee. An accountant to run things for her would be cheaper than the money she's giving away.
Hopefully the fraud department has other resources they can get her in contact with. They were talking about the local senior center last time I heard.
Obviously by my name, I work at a bank. Which means I see scams. Which can be a good thing. If I see them quickly enough, then that's one person who isn't being caught by the blasted things.
You know you didn't really win the lottery, right? (And if you did, WHY wouldn't they take the taxes out first? Why would they send you the check and then ask for you to wire the taxes back?)
And that relative you never heard of before didn't leave you his fortune. (Again, exactly WHY would you have to pay someone first to get your inheritance? Outside of your own lawyer, perhaps?)
And I know the economy is rough. Shouldn't that tell you that a sit at home and do nothing while they pay you to run "paychecks" through your account is a little too easy to be a legitimate job? (And exactly WHY would they need you to run the checks through your own personal account?)
As for the "secret shopper" scams. ONE, they do not hire via e-mail. TWO, neither Western Union nor MoneyGram use outside secret shoppers. THREE, legitimate secret shopper companies pay you a PAYCHECK. They do not send you a large check, tell you to keep your portion of it, do a few small purchases here and there and then Western Union the remainder to who knows where. They also tend to either give you a company credit card or (more likely) have you fill out reimbursement forms to get your money back.
And WHY would that wonderful guy you met online need to send you a check to cash and wire back to him before he can get tickets to come meet you? How does that even make sense?
The one that had me in near tears was the elderly, a bit mind-fuzzled and very sweet lady who sent over $30,000 to "bill collectors" who kept calling and telling her she owed them the money. Our fraud department is working with her to try to prevent her from sending out even more money and trying to get her help. She's so confused, and keeps on being convinced that she actually needs to send out this money.
We cannot prevent her from using her own money, so the only thing we can do is advise. She let us contact her son about the issue and the bastard is doing exactly NOTHING. Damn it, if you don't want to put in effort to help out your mother's finances yourself, get her set up with a payee. An accountant to run things for her would be cheaper than the money she's giving away.
Hopefully the fraud department has other resources they can get her in contact with. They were talking about the local senior center last time I heard.
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