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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 597829, member: 66"]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?[/QUOTE]