The fact that I just saw a very similar thing happen on my account, and I've now heard of it happening to at least two other people at totally different banks makes me think this is part of a new loophole that has been found and it's a way to test for valid accounts leading up to cleaning them out. It tests with a relatively large amount of money, then puts it back so that the balance doesn't show a change right away.
The BofA fraud agent I spoke to said he'd seen in before and that it was usually a percursor to fraud.
Didn't get to sleep until after 1 am. There is not enough TGIF in the world. Only five hours of work to go! I probably won't get to deposit my paycheck today, which sucks but oh well.
An acquaintance of mine (both played rugby at same school but I played much earlier) has joined our crew at work! She's so awesome to have. Competent and chill and trustworthy. Yay!
This is what Dan says about le nub's money sitch, in his VERY OWN TYPING! (SAY "Hi, Dan!")
Yeah so I'm not going all the way to my desk to sign in as me, but anyway here's the thing: it could be a test of the account's validity, though generally when that happens the criminals tend to make small withdrawals so as not to set off flags, rather than making deposits.
To me it almost looks like laundering of money that has been taken from some other person's account. Like, what might be happening if this was a transfer rather than a straight up deposit in-person is that funds are being electronically transferred from one compromised bank account to another, before ultimately being withdrawn and wired overseas since the FBI (now) tends to look for people who create new accounts just to mule hot money.
I admit I haven't heard or seen any reports of such a thing, but I could see the business progressing that way. That of course means the CU account would have been compromised in some way, or that an employee of the CU is participating.
I woke up exhausted this morning. Like, I could sleep another eight hours exhausted. Fell back asleep on the couch and am now late for work (with ND, so that's not too big a deal). I have a painful headache behind my right eye that ibuprofin hasn't touched. And I'm feeling tingly and light headed. Ugh.
Okay, so here's my question of the day: Dan typed the security info, but which of them went back to edit in the paragraph breaks?
MWAH!
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Sean, take care of yourself, that sounds like a whopper of a headache.
Thanks, Burrell. It's a pretty light day of studio work today, and I have ND keeping an eye on me. The headache is a *little* better after an excedrin migraine. Still a little lethargic and light headed, though.
Sean, feel better. I had an awful headache yesterday and couldn't figure out why, until I realized too late at night that I had been having 3 cups of tea at the beach and only had one yesterday.
Man,
well, I am beyond glad that I got my account number changed. What's more interesting is that I did some contract work for an agency in Qatar a few months back and was paid in that account as a wire transfer. Now, the suspicious activity showed up locally, so I don't think it had anything to do with the international work...
Yeah, I can't see any explanation of what transpired that does not have me uttering the word "shady."
If it were on the up and up, other things would have happened (like a notation on my acct). I thought it was preparation for imminent fraud or laundering. I do think the other CU is in on it.
