Remember when banks required a thumbprint to cash a check?

[KansDem]

...now the fucking banks have taken our money to the tune of $350 billion (and growing).

I remember when I was working part-time I got paid one day and wanted to cash my paycheck. I discovered I couldn't get to my bank in time so I walked a few blocks during my lunch hour to use the bank my employer used. I tried to cash the check and the teller said I'd have to provide a thumbprint. I pointed out the check was a paycheck drawn on one of their accounts, but that didn't matter (I mean, who's going to be stupid enough to try to cash a bogus check at the bank on which the account is drawn?). I refused and worked out my schedule so I could use my bank.

But really, did Congress require any bank CEOs to provide them with a thumbprint before giving them the first $350 billion? What a joke! Fuck the banks and the crooks that run them!

[FarCenter]

1. How would your employer's bank know you were the person that the check was made out to?

They were trying to protect against someone stealing your paycheck and then cashing it with a false/stolen ID.

[KansDem]

4. Really?

Someone is going to steal my measly paycheck then go to the trouble of fabricating a fake I.D. so they could cash it? Naaah....

I'm just p.o.ed that we are led to believe that "bankers" are soooo morally and ethically superior to the rest of us and such pillars of the community. Yet, they took me and my fellow Americans for $350 billion and intend to take more...all without having to relinquish a thumbprint!

F*cking criminals!

[FarCenter]

11. Really. There is a lot of fraud out there.

And they have no prior relationship with you. You are not their customer.

[KansDem]

12. Yeah, but now the "lot of fraud" is concentrated on Wall Street and the banks' boardrooms...

My thumbprint for a few-hundred-dollar paycheck. Yet, they ripped us off for hundreds of billions and we don't get anything in return. Not even their thumbprints!

We don't get to humiliate them like they humiliated us!

[Hannah Bell]

2. no, i don't. 40+ years of check-cashing, never gave a thumbprint.

[sandnsea]

3. It's a new requirement

If you cash a check at a bank other than your own, you'll have to provide a thumb print. I've done it once. I find it horribly intrusive.

[Hannah Bell]

5. never encountered that. i can write a check for over my price of purchase

at my grocery store.

[sandnsea]

6. At banks

To cash them at any bank besides your own. To track money laundering and terrorist money, etc.

[Hannah Bell]

7. sure, understand "banks," just saying.

[Gormy Cuss]

8. The first place that I saw it was at an urban branch near the city welfare office.

It was pretty clear that its principal purpose was to discourage those with general assistance checks.

[Hannah Bell]

10. well, those folks are probably terrorists.

[KansDem]

9. "I find it horribly intrusive."

So do I! I've been asked a few times but refused. I think it ironic that the banks require us to provide them with a thumbprint in order to cash a check (even on one of its accounts) but then turn around and steal hundreds of billions of dollars from us!

All without giving us a thumbprint!

I want the bank CEOs to feel "horrible intruded on" for stealing our money!!!

[Greyhound]

13. No.

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