For The Love of Money

I'M A VICTIM OF FRAUD!! AAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Working at a financial institution, the number of frauds doubled and trippled. Never thought it would happen to me. Well, it is my own fault though but just when you think doing good deeds will come back to you, sometimes it wont:(

I was across the Bay with some friends and asked to stop by any ATM machine to pull out cash. We stopped at California Bank & Trust in Hayward by Southland Mall. At my bank, I just swipe my card at the machine. This one in particular takes your card and returns it at the end of your transaction. I did my business and WALKED AWAY WITHOUT THE MACHINE RETURNING MY CARD!! uggghhhhh so stupid! Well that was around 6pm last night and I didnt notice till this afternoon. I know some bank ATM machines will keep the card if no activity happens in a period of minutes or so. So I called the bank and they said they saw no card in the machine when they opened up in the morning. Luckily I work at my bank so I called Cust. Serv. and asked for a new card. I didnt sweat fraud cause my card was just an ATM card and not a debit check card so you need the pin to purchase anything. WELL, the customer's service rep asked me what was the last transaction I did and i told her. She then tells me that someone came up after me and since the machine still had my card in it, my transaction was never processed and they were still able to pull an additioal $100! (*&?;#$#@&!?[\*) uugghhhhhh, then she tells me that they completed that transaction and tried to take out more but the pin number was wrong!

So tomorrow, I have to go fill out a fraud report at the bank. I am bummed not because of the money but because of how I should've been paying more attention. And I'm just grateful because it really couldve been waaaaaay worse!!! So $100 is a lot of money to me but it's also a slap on the wrist compared to other things. Luckily, it will be covered but this is def a lesson learned!!! DONT LEAVE THE ATM MACHINE WITHOUT YOUR DAMN CARD!!!!!!


P.S. *Mo Money, Mo Problems*