Daniel filled out a Washington Mutual deposit slip listing several checks and $500 in cash, but “forgot” to hand over the cash. He normally isn’t a fan of “shady business,” but now that he has a bank statement crediting him for the $500 hiding in his wallet, he’s suddenly not sure what to do…
He writes:
Today I went to wamu to deposit money from checks and cash to pay my property taxes in Los Angeles. So I fill out my depositing paper and I write the total of several checks and my cash. Yet when I go to the teller I only give them the checks and I forget to give them the cash.. I don’t notice at the moment that I still have five benjamins in my shirt pocket until about two hours later when I notice the bills. Now I have a bank account credited to an extra 500 dollars and I don’t know what to do. Can you help me out with suggestions? Can the bank track down who has an extra $500? I normally don’t like doing shady business but in a time of recession every penny counts.
Thank you for your help.
You’re going to be caught, plain and simple. Go back and speak with a manager. Explain what happened, and hand over the money. You’ll earn a small bit of good will, but more more importantly, you won’t be, you know, stealing.
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I don’t care about the moral issue at stake. The bank certainly doesn’t give a toss if you return it or not. 500 is chump change to wamu.
But you should still give the money back, because as has been said, if the bank catches this error they will take the money off you. At any time. And slap a bunch of extra fees on you for their trouble.
There’s every possibility you’ll find yourself 500+ bucks short in a couple of months.
Too risky in my opinion.
What should I do? There’s should have been no question about that. You are morally bound to give what you initially failed to give. This goes for everyone out there.
Sure, the banksters are thieves, but you are still obligated to do what’s right, regardless of their failure to account for the cash.
give them their money back.