Mail Fraud - Stolen Checks!
- Thread starter TPD
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Shoot me the 2 grand of additional overhead, you slug .....then we'll call it even. I once thought you were smarter than this...
PeoplesElbow
Well-Known Member
Nonsense is believing the PO will ever fix the problem. Are you seriously hedging your bets on the problem being corrected?
TPD
the poor dad
I’m just as shocked as you!
TPD
the poor dad
So I received a notice in the mail yesterday from the comptroller’s office. Apparently I’m late paying my November sales taxes so I am being assessed penalties, fees, and interest of more than $300. My sales tax payment is due the 20th of each month. I file my report online, usually the 1st week of the month and schedule my payment to be taken out of my checking account on the 20th. December 20th was on a Tuesday - no weekend or holiday. I discovered my fraud check on December 22nd and informed my bank the same day, at which point they froze my account. My assumption at the time was That all of my tax payments had already been electronically made for the month so didn’t inform the bank of these withdrawals. Well I guess the state of Maryland didn’t want my money until after Dec 22nd so of course my bank denied the withdrawal since my account was frozen, hence the reason for fees, penalties, and interest.
I spent about 30 minutes on the phone this morning trying to talk to a human at the comptrollers office to plead my case to get the penalties removed, only to be told I need to send an email pleading my case. I send the email only to get an automated response stating my email has been received and I will get a response in a couple of days.
BTW, a month later and I still don’t have my $9800 back. Had a customer/business owner in the store this week who told me he had 2 checks stolen, washed and cashed. He told me of another business who had a check stolen washed and cashed for more than $50,000. This is all BS and should have been stopped months ago!
I spent about 30 minutes on the phone this morning trying to talk to a human at the comptrollers office to plead my case to get the penalties removed, only to be told I need to send an email pleading my case. I send the email only to get an automated response stating my email has been received and I will get a response in a couple of days.
BTW, a month later and I still don’t have my $9800 back. Had a customer/business owner in the store this week who told me he had 2 checks stolen, washed and cashed. He told me of another business who had a check stolen washed and cashed for more than $50,000. This is all BS and should have been stopped months ago!
TPD
the poor dad
I did not know that. Thx
on getting your dollars back..and as for the not from here commish, my impressions of him long before he ran for commish was I wouldn't trust him.
fyi, people still writing checks might want to procure a UNI-Ball 207 pen. They are supposed to be impervious to the chemicals that they use to wash checks.
Amazon product
Walmart also has them in Stock, but cheaper on Amazon.
Probably a good idea to use these on any legal document.
Our accounts dept does not "write" checks. They are printed in batches directly from our accounting software and the signature is stamped on them before they go in the matching envelopes. The envelope that showed the address of the payee. THAT is the kind of checks the organized crime gang at USPS focuses on stealing. From our business and many others like ours. Not Grandma's payment to the gas company.
To avoid the trained thieves at USPS, we've resorted to sending out all checks in a plain hand-adressed envelope, something that adds hours to our accounts payable gal's work load. We also added ACH payment feature to our main company account and have worked with some of our regular suppliers to use that...it is a $15 monthly fee to have that service.
Is it possible to spray a clear sealant on them to help prevent the washing?
Perhaps...but that ignores the equally damaging aspect of the wholesale theft of checks by inside USPS operation; most of the checks they steal they simply sh!tcan. Of the 16 of ours that they stole, "only" two were actually washed and cashed.
NextJen
Raisin cane
I agree that the majority of checks are probably the ‘business’ type that you describe, but the check stolen and washed that I wrote for the HOA where I live was in a plain envelope with hand written To and From addresses. Someone at USPS must have noticed the addresses as businesses and snatched it. Bass-turds.
I sent a few to my Grandma too.