Re: paypal check
A relative is a detective for a police department in a major city. His father was an FBI agent who worked in financial crimes. We've actually discussed this in the past
For charges to be pressed, one of three parties would first need to file a police report: paypal, your bank, you.
The bank can submit a suspicious activity report to the police department, but if you aren't bouncing checks, and none of the checks that you've cashed have been reported as stolen, the police detectives won't follow-up on the report. There's a system in place that will notify them of that report in the event that you are ever arrested in the future. Someone at your local branch would probably be the first to submit this report to corporate. It's highly unlikely that it would ever reach the police department if there are no other issues with your bank unless you are moving thousands around on a daily basis. The banks themselves are dealing with more financial crimes on a daily basis than there are employees who can see all of them through to the point of an arrest.
Paypal is free to submit a police report as well, but if there's nothing illegal going on with your account, they probably wouldn't. I'd say that so many illegal transactions go through paypal every day and there are only so many humans who can file police reports. I'm sure that they are focusing on cases that they can take to trial, not someone depositing a stealth check that no other party has reported as stolen.
You wouldn't file a police report on yourself, so there's that
My detective relative said that they get hundreds of fraud reports every day from banks but only have so many detectives. These same detectives also have to deal with murders, rapes, shootings, etc so many financial crimes are never prosecuted. That doesn't mean that the report is not put in the system. If you are ever arrested for anything in the future, the report will pop up, and it's only then that it may be investigated. They recently had a woman come in because a check from a bank was stolen in the mail. She wanted a police report, which she received, and sent it to the bank. The bank then faxed over the bank account number that deposited this check. The check was for $1,000. My relative said that they aren't going to investigate a $1,000 check that the bank actually ended up reissuing to the customer when there are elderly people being scammed for their life savings.
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