Sold an old BMW today to a friend at a shop here in town. He had an insurance check to cash and went to Bank of America here in town to cash the check and get the money for the car. I accepted the 7000 as he received it from BoA. Counted it and returned it to the envelope. The next morning I took the cash to BB&T to deposit and one of the bills was rejected by their counter/sorter. It passed the marker test and had all of the security features but was rejected by the sorter again and the teller decided to call (Secret Service?) for bill number info. Apparently they had many references to that serial number and demanded that bill. They wanted info on how it was accuired to the best of my knowledge which was simple to provide. We also allerted BoA of the incident but they were only interested in letting us know that after the bill left their tellers hands and had been accepted; it was no longer their responsibility. They were in no way concerned that the bill they provided may have been a counterfeit. So the bill has been sent to the SS for verification and I should know the outcome in a few months (i think I already know the outcome of this).
Pretty sad when you can not even assume that bills from a bank are not counterfeit. I can not blame BB&T but I do wonder if their was a way that BoA should have been checking bills before presenting them.
Sorry, just had to vent somewhere. :banghead:
Pretty sad when you can not even assume that bills from a bank are not counterfeit. I can not blame BB&T but I do wonder if their was a way that BoA should have been checking bills before presenting them.
Sorry, just had to vent somewhere. :banghead:
