Just when you thought the banking system couldn’t get any worse (again) . . .
Amid reports that the big Wall Street banks are up to their old tricks, namely the ones that produced The Great Recession, comes a new threat to your own, possibly unstable, personal financial situation.
Surely you’ve seen the commercials touting how convenient it is to use your cell phone to snap a picture of a check and deposit it to your account.
Guess what else is convenient? CHEATING!
That’s right – and there’s nothing being done about it!
You give somebody a check, they phone it in, and a couple of months later they cash the same check again the old-fashioned way, over-the-counter. All of a sudden your checking account is X number of dollars lighter, and unpleasant surprises start coming your way. You complain to your bank, they point the finger at the other guy’s bank; the other guy’s bank points the finger at your bank.
And what do you get? The finger! The f#*%ing banks don’t care. “Safeguards? We don’ need no stinkin’ safeguards!”