Posted on 09/17/2024 4:56:39 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
We had a similar situation in Georgia just reported on yesterday.
“Former Valdosta credit union execs sentenced for multi-million dollar fraud scheme”
Some people get near money and greed kicks in so they just can’t help themselves.
That’s the part that I don’t understand. One or two complaints from customers (most of whom would know exactly how much should be in their accounts) would lead to the same teller/agent. That is a BIG auditing red flag.
I used to spend time with the head of security of our bank; driving back and forth to remote locations. While he never told me the specifics of what they were investigating he lamented that 99.9% of the people trying to steal from the bank lacked imagination. He hadn’t seen a “new scam” in almost a decade. And, anything “I” could think of had already been tried.
Trying to rob a bank from the inside is going to fail.
Maybe I need to start putting my money under the mattress and hidden all over the house and property like my mother and grandmother did (I’m sure we never found it all...).
I wonder if she was put up to doing this by a boyfriend, pusher, human smuggling gang she owes money to, etc.
What if there is a fire? A friend of ours puts money in glass jars and buries it in her yard. Her adult son is too lazy to dig it up, and it'll probably be found in the future by new owners. I hid money in walls, but I retrieved it for placement in a fireproof safe in a hidden location. At least I think I retrieved it all from inside walls. Problem is, getting old makes one forgetful.
Oh, a friend of ours hid a thousand dollars in a book on his bookshelf. Unfortunately, his wife donated the books to a book reseller. Friend realized what happened, rushed to the used book store but book was long gone. Don't do what he did!
Nope just plain ol’ lack of impulse control.
OMG my dad grandfather did just that. after he died my grandfather and my dad went to did up the jars and could not find them..
We have done all our banking with a local credit union since. It's been a nice experience so far. My only beef if they don't have much of an ATM network but I rarely have to withdraw cash these days so it's not a big deal.
What do you think is "Communist" about credit unions?
A metal detector wand might help in locating buried jars. But not if the jars have plastic lids, or if very deep. I recently used my rototiller to dig part of my yard at the base of a hill during landscaping. The rototiller encountered numerous glass bottles and beer cans, tossed there many decades ago before I moved in. Most of the bottles got busted up, found a foot deep or more. So it’s not a good idea to bury glass jars of money. Unless you bury gold and silver coins!
“What do you think is “Communist” about credit unions?”
If it’s a bank, call it a bank. That’s all. Communists have a habit of deceptive naming, such as “Gender-Affirming Care”.
i dont think they had metal detectors in 1949, but I am sure who ever bought the house has long ago found the jars..
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