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Couple allegedly spends $100k after bank accidentally deposits it in their account
Fox San Diego ^ | 9/7/19 | BY TRIBUNE MEDIA WIRE

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox5sandiego.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 100k; bank; felonytheft; money; nifster; overdraft; texasgatortroll
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To: Gay State Conservative
If someone had dropped a bag with $100K of cash in it then that would be their good fortune.

You have the IQ of a slime mold.

But I bet you get that a lot.

61 posted on 09/08/2019 10:48:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.")
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

If someone gives you money by mistake you hold it in “constructive trust”. Receiving the money into the account is not theft, but withdrawing it and spending it is.

Because they are constructively trustees of the rightful owner, if they they turned a profit on the money while they have it, they are investing it for the owner, and the profit goes to the owner.

These are all concepts that were pretty much worked out well over 100 years ago.


62 posted on 09/08/2019 10:48:43 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Leaning Right

Yeah I remember that episode, Bart and Lisa made an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon and used Grandpa’s name


63 posted on 09/08/2019 10:49:12 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: NohSpinZone
State police say Robert and Tiffany Williams of Montoursville spent most of the money on items ranging from an SUV to a race car

I've seen this kind of impulse control deficit before. Along with some other common denominators.

64 posted on 09/08/2019 10:49:47 AM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

You should be embarrassed by that post.


65 posted on 09/08/2019 10:50:24 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Seaplaner

It was good for you to point out her error. The thing is, someone would have to make up the difference somewhere down the line whether it was the clerk, the manager who didn’t train her correctly, or the customer. That’s why I try to do the right thing because even if the error is in my favor I know that it doesn’t really belong to me. This couple knew that the money wasn’t theirs.


66 posted on 09/08/2019 10:50:26 AM PDT by punknpuss
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To: Leaning Right

Now that is Bob Hope level funny!


67 posted on 09/08/2019 10:51:25 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: NohSpinZone

I once deposited $8100 in a bank and they put in $81,000. I didn’t catch the error until about 40 days later when I got money out of an ATM. I went into the bank and told them they had made a mistake, they acted as if I had robbed them. Never even got a thank you, they did not take back the interest earned which was about $200 as I recall.


68 posted on 09/08/2019 10:52:02 AM PDT by wfu_deacons
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To: Gay State Conservative

Nope

Just like coming across a car unlocked with keys in it. If you get and drive away changes are it’s a police decoy you get arrested for GTA

If this thread is any indicator there are a bunch here at FR that have no conscience


69 posted on 09/08/2019 10:53:29 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: NohSpinZone

First Tennessse Bank parked 3,250,000 of an insurance company in my personal account about ten years ago

My wife was like honey please tell me you put over 3 million in our personal account somehow last night

It took us three weeks and multiple calls to get them to remove it

We didn’t touch it


70 posted on 09/08/2019 10:53:35 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: Vermont Lt

Actually, computers never make mistakes. It is always human error of one kind or another.


71 posted on 09/08/2019 10:53:37 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: NohSpinZone

I’m shocked who’d a guessed


72 posted on 09/08/2019 10:55:28 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: moovova
I've gotten $5 too much change at a convenience store and gone back in and returned it.(*) I was not raised to take something that isn't mine.

(*) I'm slightly OCD about my cash, I arrange it in order facing the same direction in my wallet. But when handed change I don't make those in line behind me wait while I go about my eccentricity. Noticed the extra change at my car...

73 posted on 09/08/2019 10:56:04 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: Nifster

Actually they may get arrested for grand theft auto, but the prosecutor will have to prove that the person who got into the car intended to permanently deprive the owner of possession.

If you intended to take a car and “joyride”, then leave it somewhere, it may just be “unauthorized use”.

“It ain’t yours. Don’t take it or use it”

If you follow that sage advice, you don’t have to go hire an attorney to argue that you intended 2) versus 1).


74 posted on 09/08/2019 10:56:14 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: montag813

There was an incident several years ago where a bank ATM gave out more twenties than it recorded giving out. The people who kept the money without reporting it were fined.

There are cameras in there, folks. Not to mention technological methods for finding out who kept the money.


75 posted on 09/08/2019 10:57:12 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

They probably figured if they spent it all and gave a lot of it away, nobody could prove they ever had it.

Your solution is a lot smarter.

Good plot for a TV crime show.

But I bet they’d make you pay whatever interest the money earned as well.


76 posted on 09/08/2019 11:00:01 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: ConservativeMind

yes, I was being OVERLY facetious


77 posted on 09/08/2019 11:01:39 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is cast as the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

If the bank accidentally deposited it into their account, isn’t it then theirs?


No

If they spent it, it will be considered theft.


78 posted on 09/08/2019 11:02:45 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: bgill

A teller at my bank shorted me a couple of dollars on three separate occasions. The last time I started counting out my money right there in front of him.. Before I finished counting he “suddenly realized” and reopened the drawer to give me the money he had shorted me.
Things like that Never used to happen to me. Are tellers dumber now or more dishonest? Or does being a senior make you more of a target?


79 posted on 09/08/2019 11:06:07 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: ladyjane

Yes! Your drawer is off whether it’s under or over! I learned that when I worked as a cashier in a department store. We were never right on the nose. And then a list would go up on the bulletin board.

And the manager would say, “You college girls are the worst ones!”

I was bonded, though. A guy left a twenty-dollar bill behind plus some ones, and I called him back to get it. I figured out later that he must have been the tester. Or one of them.


80 posted on 09/08/2019 11:06:40 AM PDT by firebrand
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