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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 594514, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Buy the largest heaviest safe you can afford then</b></p><p><br /></p><p>As far as this story goes about this old lady having her account emptied - the bank should restore her account and start an investigation of why or how it happened.&nbsp; They have funds set aside for that and it&#039;s to their, (the banks) interest to find out what happened.</p><p>Early on in 1999 I responded to an fake eBay request for personal information (before I knew better) and the following week my account was emptied by companies like some gas station in New York and here&#039;s how they did it, they probe your account - first they withdraw .55 cents, then $5.55, then $55.55, then $555.55 until it&#039;s cleaned out - my credit union reimbursed me that very day and started an investigation.&nbsp; Turns out these fake places set up shop in other countries for less than 2-business days then start their scam by sending say a 10,000 emails - if only 2% get fooled they wipe them out and close up and move on.</p><p>The way I see it if your account at a bank gets tapped into fraudulently the bank should restore your money with no problems - they are the keepers of your money after all.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>How to protect your valuables at home - Buy the largest heaviest safe you can afford then fill it with boxes of circulated cent rolls or dead weight of some sort - then <b>store nothing of value in it</b> but put your valuables in a ceriel box, or a shoe box or under the bed.</p><p>Thieves are stupid and will spend their time trying to move that safe or pry it open never knowing all that&#039;s in there is circulated cents or scrap metal.</p><p>I even read once about a little old lady that had a fortune in gold coins stored in large cans of nuts in the freezer - she had just emptied them and put the coins near the bottom so when opened they just looked like a can of frozen nuts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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