Salt Lake City, Ut--On Wednesday March 27 at approximately 9:43 AM 2 individuals pulled into the Zions Bank on 1300 S and Foothill Drive and were caught attempting to cash fraudulent checks.
Check fraud has been increasing over the past century as a result of improvements in technology, and an increased amount of greed among people. Check Fraud falls under a larger umbrella category of money scams according to the United States Government. Checks are printed, or forged by these criminals with various different business account numbers for any amount of different sums of money. These checks are then taken and cashed at a local bank or convenience store while the business foots the bill.
The Zions bank employees were alerted to a potential stolen business account just minutes before one of these stolen business checks appeared in the drawer at the drive up.
"It was scary!" one Zions bank teller said of the incident. However she kept her cool alerted her boss, who informed the authorities of the situation on hand.
"I tried to stall them until the police came, but there is only so much you can do before they start to wonder what is going on." the bank teller said.
The individuals in question left the bank drive up before the police arrived. The businesses however, I am sure, are very grateful for one bank teller who was simply doing her job, as she puts it.
Check fraud costs businesses and consumers lot's of money every year.
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