Several weeks before, he’d prepared a payment to his credit card company and put the envelope out for his mail carrier to pick up, but the check never made it there.
…a cautionary tale. My 64-year-old friend, a former neighbor, is retired and living in Los Angeles. I won’t tell you his name because he’s an extremely private guy and he doesn’t want his name used. He’s also in the beginning stages of Lou Gehrig’s disease, commonly known as ALS. In other words, this guy has enough problems without me publicizing his name. But for the sake of the story, let’s call him “Chuck.” Last week, Chuck discovered that a withdrawal of $143 had been made from his checking account. He thought that was odd because he’d had no bill for $143. So he contacted the bank, where the teller, at first, seemed to think that somehow another account had been opened up with the exact same account number as my friend. The teller said he’d look into things but that the money appeared to be a human error. The next day, another check, also for more than $100, was cleared from Chuck’s account. So Chuck called the bank again, and it was soon determined that somebody had opened an account in Chuck’s name and…
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A Cautionary Tale of a Guy Who Was Only Trying To pay a Bill
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