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Jailed for cashing Chase check at Chase bank | KING5.com Seattle

:gorez:

he should of got a huge settlement for that....

not just a re-imbursement

Another case of big banks, corporate Amerika.... screwing the public by their own inefficiencies. Fees up the gazoo.... At Bancamerika they want six bucks to cash a check made out to me on a corporate check....:smash: Any sense in that? The total lack of common sense today in American business is mindboggling...... I hope this guy gets tens of millions from Chase...

I'm hoping that the lawyer's letter was delivered by a process server, along with a summons and complaint asking for at least $10 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

ah, the American dream.

Although it probably is a true story, the chain of events has a ring of "internet urban legend" to it.
Goes to bank, banker suspects fraud, customer decides to leave bank to run errand WITHOUT his check or license, calls for info, returns next day, is arrested for fraud, car gets towed same day, sold at auction apparently within a week, lost his job...did I leave anything else out?

Customer decides to leave to run an "errand", but article doesn't state that he left WITH the check and his ID which the banker had taken to "verify" the check.
Shows up the next day an is arrested. Gee, I didn't know that Auburn had NCIS working for their banking industry, and was able to PROVE bank fraud overnight?
Car gets towed and auctioned off. Gee, I thought you had to wait 30 days before you could auction a vehicle, but I guess Auburn has their own laws governing that.
Lost his job? Any employer worth their weight in salt would stand behind thier employee if the employee was innocent and had been through this kind of ordeal.

All in all it sounds a little too much to have happen to one person at one time, but you can never tell.
If it is a completely legit story, I hope he retains legal council and sues the bank for every cent he can get, and then sues the bank teller on civil rights violations and has that person lose their job!
Hey, maybe Chase can pick up the tab on his house and a BRAND NEW car as an apology AFTER they lose their multimillion dollar lawsuit?

That is a 100% legit story. Picked right off the news.

He went to jail for several days, then finally got released, didn't have the money and impound fees continued to pile up. He lost his job so no way of getting the car out. I would have been on the phone with the mayor the first day.

Wish that would happen to me.
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I hate Chase Bank. They are thieves. They are relentless at being insulting and harassing the crap out of people. One time they even tried taking unauthorized payments from my checking account. The money wasn't there so of course the payments bounced and I was charged all the fees and my account was closed by my bank. It took me awhile to straighten it all out but my bank was great! My bank sent them a letter asking them to prove they had authorization which they did not. (why would I do that without money there?) I had made an electronic payment once-only once and they are not supposed to save that info. THAT IS STEALING. Can you believe there is no law against it? No punishment and no restitution on their part. If the money had been in my account and they stole it, it would have been a different story. I can't wait to have them out of my life. They suck!