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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FYI, the exact same thing happened to me about a month ago, except thr amount was $17,000, and I only had that much money in my account because I had a big tax bill coming due that was set up to be paid by ACH. I write almost no checks, only to my cleaning people and the occasional handyman, but mobile check deposit has increased the problem. I suspect my cleaning lady deposited a check and then tossed it in her garbage or recycling without shredding it, and it had all of the information somebody needed to make a fake check. It was deposited, not at Bank of America, which is my bank, but Chase. BofA has been good about helping me fix it, but I still have all sorts of things like the $35 charge from WSSC for a payment that didn’t clear.  They won’t reimburse me for that.  And it wasn’t their fault - it was Chase![/quote]

I really don’t think people are going through the trash looking for checks to forge. I think it’s much more likely someone bought your account number from an online list stolen in a data breech. [/quote]

Actually around Christmastime in MoCo there were police reports of people fishing envelopes out of mailboxes to do exactly this (get check information to copy or duplicate).  The police officer who came to my house to take my police report said she had seem some were you could actually see the white out on the check.[/quote]

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