Posted on 09/08/2019 10:02:04 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
A couple in Pennsylvania is facing theft charges and over $100,000 in overdraft fees after allegedly using money that was accidentally deposited into their bank account, WITN reports.
State police said the couple living at a home on Cypress Street in Montoursville got themselves into hot water after spending money that wasn't theirs.
Investigators said Robert and Tiffany Williams had $120,000 deposited into their account at BB&T May 31 through a mistake by a teller. But instead of contacting the bank about the deposit, the couple allegedly spent most of the money in just over two weeks from June 3 to June 19.
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I know, right? Intelligent informed discussion is rare anymore. If your post doesn't contain veiled profanity or jokes, it's either ignored, or else they flame you. I fear a lot of the good/great minds who used to post here have gone away for that reason. I don't fault management, it's maybe a generational thing, aided by the corruption in education.
Just wondering...any photos of the teller who made the “mistake”?
“I thought this was a conservative forum with mostly honest and moral people.”
I agree. I think we need some ethics classes around here.i wonder how many people know this:
A person commits the crime of theft of lost property if he actively obtains or exerts control over the property of another which he knows to have been lost or mislaid, or to have been delivered under a mistake as to the identity of the recipient or as to the nature or the amount of the property, and with intent to deprive the owner permanently of it, he fails to take reasonable measures to discover and notify the owner.
https://codes.findlaw.com/al/title-13a-criminal-code/al-code-sect-13a-8-6.html
Still a classic movie...and I’m not a movie buff. I do enjoy the part where all 3 are banging on the copier out in a field.
It was just on again last night.
What is ‘the rest of the story’?
“Isn’t possession 9/10ths of the law?
If the bank accidentally deposited it into their account, isn’t it then theirs?”
I hope you’re joking.
What I would have done.....
They could have put it into an interest earning saving/money-market account. They would have Earned interest until the bank found and corrected the mistake. It is likely they would move the $100,000 to the correct account and leave the interest untouched.
Would not have been a fortune, but it would have been a more ethical gain....
“Legally speaking, I mean, they didn’t “steal” it.”
They did when they used it.
“It’s kind of like those casinos where someone wins $20 mil at progressive slot machine play, and then the management says “it was a software error” and refuses to hand over the money.”
It’s not like that at all.
Well, they sure don’t look like a Robert and Tiffany.
Happened to me one time when a $5000 check I wrote was debited my account for $500, which really messed up my balancing the account. When I figured it out, instead of trying to explain to the bank what happened, I left the money there, figuring the check recipient would be upset enough to make the bank make things right. It took over a year before anyone traced down and fixed what happened.
Wow. You obviously haven't read some of the dope threads.
So your conscience allows you to steal other people’s money???
Its not stealing when they give it to you
““I thought this was a conservative forum with mostly honest and moral people.””
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It is a bit scary, isn’t it, suthener?
Years ago, I suffered a serious nervous breakdown due to work-related violence. For about 6-8 weeks I was totally out of it; as in, cannot recall that time span at all, for love nor money.
So I’m out of it and my beloved is managing the household as well as the finances. Workman Comp kicked in and he just let the checks go into the account.
When I finally went back to work a bit after the 6-8 weeks, I told my boss that Workman Comp had paid me way too much money as far as we could figure. My boss knew I would drive her crazy wanting to talk to someone to correct the issue so next day she has me on the phone with Workman Comp, as well as the company HR, and aside from my direct boss, another supervisor as well.
So they figure out what I need to return and I asked for the office information to send the check. You could have heard a pin drop. The Workman Comp lady (or was it the company PR? Cannot recall exactly) asked me what I meant. I said I have the entire amount and I think I owe more than what you think I do. I was told that she had **never** had any Workman Comp recipient hold off on the overpayment of funds, that they always had to get it back in small payments. The better news was that because I was insisting on settling it in one lump repayment that as far as they were concerned the case would be closed once I cut my check to them, no matter what may come up on an audit.
After the call I was almost speechless. I told my boss and the other supervisor that there was no way I could spend or that my beloved would spend monies we knew were not ours. I was really and truly shocked to find out people did such a thing. My boss and the other supervisor just it was so great they didn’t have to do anything. Good news for them, as well, I guess!
There was a time, years earlier, when the company overpaid me by $5 or so each pay period. It was small enough that I didn’t catch it. And one pay period I received only a few dollars. I panicked and went to the Secretary who handled those issues at the time and she got on the line and chewed out Payroll for them taking the money out without checking with the employee. She advised them if they’d check with my supervisor they’d have found out I most assuredly didn’t know I was being over paid. They put every cent back in a check they cut at her insistence and I paid it out like $25 a month for a while. A much shorter while than I had been getting it, for sure. LOL Since that time, I did my calculations to the penny and if it didn’t match I’d be on the phone with Payroll.
Then there was the time Payroll was practicing with REAL ACCOUNTS and removed my Payroll deposit into a regular check without me knowing about it.
Merciful, idiots inside and outside the company.
Sorry. Got on a rant.
You sound ANTIFA.
Sorry, I don’t see how a bank giving someone 100K is an error. If it was, it should have been caught immediately and fixed that day.
It seems like a very easy error to detect. You know deposits against credits, if that teller took in 50K that day but is showing 170K in credits, that is an obvious red flag that the bank manager should take care off. They did not, they waited for weeks and the people spent the money. You snooze, you lose.
“Its not stealing when they give it to you”
You really need a lawyer. Or just read these posts. Or look up the statutes.
“They did when they used it.”
According to the law, they committedtheft the moment they were aware they had control of the money and didn’t notify the bank.
“Its not stealing when they give it to you”
You really need a lawyer. Or just read these posts. Or look up the statutes.
Again, laws that create outs for the bank for errors that they should catch within 24 hours. Why aren’t the banks held accountable? Go into someones private bank account 2 weeks later, that is theft.
Sorry, I don’t agree with “legal theft” that was created by bank lobbyists
“If the bank accidentally deposited it into their account, isn’t it then theirs?”
No. Of course not. But some people actually think that way for some strange reason and this couple will have to give it all back.
They still knew it wasn’t theirs.
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