I'm still trying to get my head around this one. A man in Texas deposited empty envelopes into an ATM. The bank's systems credited his account with the fictitious amounts, he then strolled into the bank and withdraw real cash. He's now been arrested.
I don't know why I didn't think of this one sooner. I just naturally assumed that if I deposit cash at an ATM, a real person subsequently opens the envelope and checks the cash before clearing it into my account. That's how checks work isn't it? Apparently not for hard cash.
Richard Walston, 24, who recently moved to Brewer from Stephenville, Texas, was arrested Monday and charged with felony Class B theft, which means he took in excess of $10,000. The exact amount taken was not released.
Bank staff did finally figure out the fraud and notified police, who arrested Walston the next time he went to the bank to withdraw money.
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