My fiance's ex-roommate owes him several hundred dollars and has for quite some time. They still keep in touch and hang out occasionally, but there has been an understandable amount of resentment on my fiance's part about the money he is owed. I personally do not stay friends with people who owe me money (I don't really lend it in the first place) so why they are still friends is a bit of a mystery to me, but whatever it's not my friendship.
So getting to the point -
The ex-roommate guy (I will call him H) calls our house phone just now asking for my man who is at work. H then goes into some whole spiel about the money he owes him and at first I am kind of tuning him out because it's not totally my business, but then he says that he actually sent us a check in the mail and that supposedly someone jacked our mailbox and stole his checking account and routing numbers. He says there has been suspicious activity with his account and closed it at the bank.
The truth is, it's impossible for anybody to steal from our mailbox (unless it is a postal worker) because it's LOCKED all the time. I also asked H to explain the situation further as I didn't think you could steal someone's money with just a routing and account number, but he sort of wormed his way around saying his account was "just all fucked up".
So I guess what I am asking here is if it's possible to hijack someone's account and make repeated withdrawals with just the account/routing numbers.
If I find out this dude is playing with money he owes and lying to us, I want to be prepared to tell him off with facts when the time comes. lol


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Ah well, I'd rather be a "dick" than a doormat.

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