Never say Never

So you know when crazy things happen to other people and they tell you about it and you think to yourself, "that could never happen to me"

Well it happened to me!!!

Last night I logged onto our wellsfargo account to look at some stuff and noticed that our balance seemed off so I scrolled down and saw a suspicious looking check amount. At first I thought maybe it was just our taxes finally being deposited but when i viewed the check boy was I wrong. There was a check written out to "Curves for Women". Somebody had written a check for a large some and forged my signature. The strange thing was the check number they used was still in the checkbook I actually just started using.

Well because it was late last night I knew there was nothing I could do about it until in the morning so I went to bed. (Let's just say I had a hard time sleeping, I just could not stop thinking about how this might have happened.) So this morning I told Dallin about it and was like "Let's go pull it up I want to see it." So again we went and pulled up our account and what do you know but the balance has gone WAY down from what it was, so we scrolled down and there was another huge check fraudulently (SP?) written.

We immediately went down to the bank to find out what we needed to do about this. Luckily the lady there was very helpful and helped us submit a Fraud Claim and got us all set back up. They told us it looked like someone hacked into our account online and had scanned and copied different parts of checks and made new checks to use.

So when you hear of crazy stories of things happening to people remind yourself not to think, "That could never happen to me" My new motto is "NEVER say NEVER".

Note: Just as a thought for those of you that do use online banking it might be a good idea to go in and change your username and password every so often.

Oh ya and if you can't tell the picture is of a guy making fake checks. =)