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http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/man-says-he-gave-checks-to-girlfriend-who-added-zeros/article_b0787c42-d25f-11e4-a36d-bf0849e94519.html
POSTED: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015 2:55 AM
By Kevin Cole / World-Herald staff writer
An Omaha man told police that a sometime girlfriend scammed him out of $125,000, and now she wont return his phone calls.
The victim filed a report with the Omaha Police Department on March 10, a year after discovering he had been defrauded. He told police that the suspect, a Council Bluffs woman in her 30s, had promised to pay him back.
The 59-year-old victim told police that he wrote checks of $6,000 and $6,500 as gifts to a woman that he met in a bar and had dated a couple of times. He later learned that the amount of the checks had been changed to $60,000 and $65,000.
The woman has now blocked her telephone number and the victim is unsure of her exact address, the report said.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)guess he doesn't know to do that.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)could not be changed to "sixty five thousand"
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)They're probably still rolling on the floor at the police station over this one.
Police detective ... "So let me see if I've got this right. You met this lady in a bar and wrote her two checks totalling over twelve thousand dollars and now a year later you think there might be a problem because you're over a hundred thousand dollars in the hole and you haven't heard from her. Is that about it sir? Excuse me for a moment sir while I put you on hold." (Click) BWAHAHAHAHA (Click) "Hello sir, I'm back."
tech3149
(4,452 posts)When you write a check for $6K to an "occasional" girlfriend you probably are doing it for reasons you didn't want to admit or you have so much scratch you pay someone to go over your finances.
Did you ever talk to the guys (mostly) who do vintage car racing? It's funny how they can turn a million dollar classic into just so much scrap metal and walk away saying "Oh Well I guess I did mess up a bit".
Skittles
(153,180 posts)stone space
(6,498 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)I hate the system.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Oktober
(1,488 posts)I had to use one here in Africa the other day. I really had to think about the right way to write the thing out...
Quantess
(27,630 posts)And even then it was really old school.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Also my kids' schools are always wanting checks for field trips etc.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Mine have never heard of William Paid. In San Jose!
ProfessorGAC
(65,150 posts)And i use a debit card too. I'm not a luddite. I don't get why checks are old school.
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)by check. The woman in Brooklyn that I'm renting a flat from for a week wants a check....I just paid an HVAC guy..with a check! So, yes!
JI7
(89,262 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I mean that's getting into conspiracy theory territory there.
kcr
(15,318 posts)It isn't a stretch to imagine there might be a motive behind this.
JI7
(89,262 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)but I can't see myself ever writing four-figure checks to a "sometime girlfriend" that I had "met in a bar and had dated a couple of times.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)He doesn't sound too bright.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Well the girl "friend" is having a good time!
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I understand that P.T. Barnum was right about a sucker being born every minute, but the ones with money are usually not so easy to find.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)if he actually filled it out fully in the first place. The wording on a check is the legal amount. Not the numbers. It would take some serious effort to change the line from "sixty five hundred" or six thousand five hundred" to "sixty five thousand."
Tellers normally scrutinize checks of that size and it is always taken in the amount of the legal description. That is the written out wording of the dollar amount. Shouldn't be hard to prove fraud in this instance if this is the truth. He is also not without anything. He will have at the very least a digital copy.
Orrex
(63,220 posts)FSogol
(45,521 posts)LeftinOH
(5,357 posts)she wasn't his "girlfriend". Rather, he was her mark - and she performed well. A fool and his money; in this case, an incredible fool.