PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. — A Paulding County business says they’ve been the victim of check fraud, but are having a hard time convincing one bank that identity thieves are the ones who opened an account in their name. Business owners told Channel 2 consumer investigator Justin Gray that for three months thy got deposit tickets and back statements in the mail for a checking account opened by thieves and funded by money stolen from them. Mark Verrone has owned paper products distributor Metro Bag for 27 years, but has never worried about checks being stolen out of the mail. “It caught us off guard, to be honest with you,” Verrone said. Last Fall, they say thieves stole both outgoing and incoming mail. Metro Bag checks were stolen and washed. Checks from customers to the company were also stolen. “It’s tens of thousands of dollars of our money that’s stolen and it’s our money. It’s how we operate our business, and it becomes a struggle to pay bills if we don’t have that money,” Verrone explained. TRENDING STORIES: Metro Bag’s bank and several other banks quickly caught and fixed thousands of dollars in fraud, but now Verrone gets a statement […]
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