About 10 years ago I went to the ATM on a Saturday to take out some money and noticed my account seemed a little low. When I got home I opened my bank statement and saw a bunch of strange withdrawls.....$ 60 to a pizza shop, $ 50 to a Chinese Take Out, and a ton of phone charges. Totalled up to about $ 500.00. Monday AM I went and talked to an officer at the bank and she gave me a printout of all the charges and where they were made. They also refunded my $ 500.00 since she could tell they were not ones I had charged.

Being an old bill collector, I wasn't satisfied, and tracked down the girl who had made the charges. She stayed at a local motel for the weekend and ordered up all kinds of food and stuff while she was there. The motel gave me a copy of her driver's license, and I spoke to the places where she had run up a tab with my ATM numbers. The next day I went to the local police dept and gave them a thick file with all the info they needed to make an arrest, and the Desk Sgt who waited on me said "Oh yeah, we know this girl REAL WELL!"

Guess what happened? NOTHING! They essentially told me that $ 500 is not worth pursuing and that the District Attorney would probably not do anything with it. No wonder criminals operate with such impunity in this country.

Don

BTW, I found out she had gotten my atm info out of a trash can, when I tossed a restaurant receipt that had all that info printed out on it. That was before they passed the law where only the last four digits appear.