Posts Tagged ‘bank’

Hamilton bank staff were left laughing after a bare-chested man demanded 50 cents from them, before crouching down then running away yesterday. TSB manager Sandra Makein told the Waikato Times it was definitely one of the more unusual attempted robberies she had heard of. “If you can call it a robbery,” she said. Police said [...]

Police in Ellensburg, Wash., said a man looking for a place to sleep broke into the basement of a bank, and — yes — he had been drinking. Surveillance video shows the man breaking a basement window about 3 a.m. Saturday and leaving before 8 a.m.

Lloyds TSB personal banker Kerry Whittaker took £217,000 from a customer’s account and funnelled £172,000 of it to a blonde woman who had walked into his Bromley branch wearing shorts and a skimpy top, a court heard. Whittaker, 34, admitted finding Hungarian Viktoria Kazi, 26, “hot” and when questioned about the transactions claimed he had [...]

New York, June 3 (ANI): A female employee of Citibank was apparently fired from her job because her male colleagues found her ‘too distracting’. Debrahlee Lorenzana said that despite her turnout being professional, her male bosses and co-workers still found her too hot be around their cold cash.

20 Bizaare Money-Saving Tips for the New Year

Posted: 29th December 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Economy | Finance
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Man Dresses as Mom to Withdraw Cash from Bank

Posted: 9th December 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Fifs
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Police said a Franklin man dressed up as his mother in an attempt to withdraw money from her bank account. Tita Nyambi, 25, was still at the Chase Bank in Franklin, in Somerset County, when police arrived Monday afternoon. Tellers called to report that a man wearing women’s clothes and speaking in a high pitched [...]

Controversial bank account fees, which have fattened banks’ bottom lines at the expense of vulnerable consumers, are rapidly becoming a black eye for the industry.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America’s customer service — really, really unhappy. Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that “1,784 billion, trillion dollars” be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000, court papers show.

Suspect Held in Helicopter Cash Heist

Posted: 25th September 2009 by Veritas in Crime
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Swedish police said they were holding one suspect after armed robbers used a helicopter to stage a spectacular raid on a cash storage unit on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday.

Are you Brave Enough to Stop a Bank Robbery?

Posted: 21st September 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Crime
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Sometimes legal fishing expeditions pay off. A year ago, a Connecticut hedge fund sued UBS, contending that it knowingly sold toxic mortgage-backed securities to institutional investors but never disclosed that information.