I was the victim of an online scam involving money orders. A bank teller at SunTrust manually entered the amount of $2850.00 into my account without placing a hold on the money orders to make sure they were legit. Instead, she exclaimed, "Well, they look real enough to me," and the money was there within 1 business day. Not until a week later did SunTrust receive the money orders back as counterfeit, and now I am being held responsible for a bank teller's dumb mistake.
Since then, they have taken the remaining money I had left in the bank, deducted the money I had already spent, and added a few NSF charges to things I had charged with my debit card days prior. I had already talked to a lady in the bank's Fraud Department, but amazingly enough, she only credited my account $380, compared to an almost whopping amount, not including charges that I will soon be placed with. I don't understand why I should be held to blame, while SunTrust Banks, Inc. had issued a warning notice that these scams were out there.
The bank teller ignored the fact that the money orders were for $950.00 each, that they would not scan, and that they contained the wrong watermark of Benjamin Franklin.
How is this justice?!
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