Safes vs banks

Gold & key date I keep in my safety deposit box at my bank.

 

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Here's my response to the question...... A New Safe
60" tall, 36" wide and 24" deep...... Holds lots of stuff and I can get to it any time.... :thumb:

 

Nice safe! That is one of the heaviest and strongest available. It would be a real shame to hide that in a back room!

very nice.

 

Not hidden at all.. A piece of furniture? which resides in my living room... and looks pretty nice there too... Thanks!! :bow:

 

That is an awesome safe. Even if you invited me to try to break into that thing and take something, I wouldn't have the ambition to try it. It just looks intimidating. lol There won't be any "snatch and run" happening there. :thumb:

 

It's not intimidating at all. It's inviting. I don't know where you live, but in many parts of the country, a half dozen gang members hopped up on drugs will just walk into your home armed to the teeth, and force you to open it for them.

 

Point well taken, but the primary reasons for my home safe is protection from break in when I'm not home and fire.... If those "thugs" get in my house with or without a safe, and I'm there it doesn't matter, does it?? I don't live in that type of area, but bad things can happen anywhere.... Kiss

 

Unless the bank decides you haven't used it recently (Especially in CA where there have been cases where the inactivity was less than a year, and the customers HAD been doing other business with the bank in the meantime.) in which case the box is seized and turned over to the State. When you discover it you'll get a cash settlement back from the State (The amount they sold the contents for.) but don't expect to get the actual contents back. (Especially papers, and documents, those are shredded.)

In the original post, the crook probably was NOT a lawyer, and this type of scam has been going on since the invention of the telephone, and was probably done by mail and telegram before that. Today they do the same thing by phishing emails and such. Who here hasn't gotten an email claiming to be from their bank (and banks they don't do business at) with some excuse about a security update or something and asking you to confirm your CC# and/or your bank account numbers etc.

The banks seizes it and turns it over to the State. But does it matter which one does it? Gone is gone.

That's silly. How is the bank supposed to know which requests for payment coming in are the results of fraud and which are legitimate requests? They do try to scan for obviously fraudulent attempts, but how could you expect them to be responsible for the money because YOU gave someone access that didn't deserve it?