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You Better Take a Look at Your Checking Account Today
Teen Gets $31,000 Deposit in Account By Mistake, Steals It
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — A kid in Georgia has stolen a lot of money and won’t give it back.
On March 7 the First Citizens Bank in Hull, Georgia made a mistake, depositing $31,000 from a customer named Steven Fields into the account of another customer with the same name. The second Fields is a local 18 year old who, after finding the bank’s error, immediately did what any budding sociopath would with a lot of money that wasn’t his.
Ten days later the original Steven Fields discovered First Citizens’ mistake, by which time the teenager had spent $5,000 on his debit card and withdrew another $20,000 in cash. When the bank asked him to return the money the younger Fields claimed that they were wrong. No mistake had been made. The money, he said, was a direct deposit from his grandmother’s estate.
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I’m sad to say this story would have been unique if the teenager would of returned the misplaced money to it’s rightful owner but alast, the the rogue teen reverted back to his sinful nature and lied about his theft.
It is very sad that there is so much criminality that seems to be getting worse, and not better these days.
How the fk can he steal monies deposited into his own account, bank insurance should pay… simple as that.
How amoral can you be?
Let me spell it out for you, right is right and wrong is wrong. A liar is a liar and a thief is a thief. I assume you’d do the same thing, which would make you a liar and a thief.
How hard is it to return something that doesn’t belong to you?
And btw, if FDIC pays for the mistake, we all pay.
If the bank was made to pay for these transactions, they probably would stop happening and be an extremely rare occurrence.. :
So fk you too Oregonian
OMG…I hate to call people idiots but brother you take the selfish-shallow-idiot-U r a perfect example of what’s wrong w/ society.
Follow along if you can…what if that were your money? Because the Bank made a mistake…it was an innocent error..no malice on their part…so what? That’s what INS is for? Screw doing the right thing all around? If you dropped 20 bux on the ground and someone swooped it up right in front of you and when you go to retrieve it they tell you to FO…that makes them right because you shouldn’t have dropped it? Obviously you didn’t do it on purpose. It was an innocent error. People aren’t allowed that? And for this kid not to do the right thing…BS. It wasn’t his money and he knows it..because of that..he’s in trouble.
Idiocy like Alan’s is why people like him end up in prison.
The statute is clear, “A person commits the offense of theft of lost or mislaid property when he comes into control of property that he knows or learns to have been lost or mislaid and appropriates the property to his own use without first taking reasonable measures to restore the property to the owner.” [GA State Code, Title 16, Ch. 8, § 6].
The fact that it was over $25K makes it a felony. The teen knew it wasn’t from his grandmother’s estate, because he never made mention of having any interaction with the executor of the estate or being involved with the disposition of his grandmother’s property.
He knew the money was not his and tried to get away with taking it.
Maybe the kid really thought his grandmothers estate had deposited the money into his account. So, he spent it.
Then, after being notified by the bank of the mistake, he had no money left to repay.
We are talking about a teenager here.
I’m not saying that is what happened. I’m just saying it would be real interesting to hear his side of the story in more detail before passing judgement on a teenager.
Teenagers don’t always understand institutions such as banks, whose everyday business workings are more geared to adult understanding.
how about the Bank’s give back all the money they steal from people on a daily basis.
What do they expect… The keepers work hard to remove all morals and decency from the young people… From satanic illuminati symbolism and low moral behavior rampant in their media movies games and music, who can blame the flouridated, brainwashed, warped and twisted young minds the evil doers infect.
Reap what you sow… banking elites. The monsters you create will be coming to get you… sure as hell…..
Absolutely correct. Karmic retribution, immediately in this life or the future, it’s guaranteed.
You are helping to contribute to the very affect you complain about when you lay the blame on someone else. So, looks like it is working on you too.
I once had someone else’s mortgage payment taken from my account. The bank never gave me a good explanation how this could have happened other than the person must have given the wrong tracking and account number to the mortgage company (or the mortgage company submitted the wrong numbers). I was dumbfounded and wanted to know why there was not some kind of double check that would match the account number with another form of I.D. to confirm the transaction. Everyone should check their account summaries regularly.
He looks like a thief, so that qualifies him to take the money according to liberals.
If ever this story was true it would have been a good post. It’s only a “story”.
I just checked my account. There’s nothing there. What the…
wow he’s actually done to a bank what the banks do to the people
It is highly possible this young man did think the money was from his grandmother’s estate. The original article was completely biased. Not what I would call journalism.
I am less inclined to believe a bank’s story without seeing the proof.