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This might be long so I'm sorry but I'm so mad right now. I was shaking earlier and after a couple ciggies and a good scream in my bosses office I'm calmer but I still have to vent.   

About 3hrs ago I get a call from my father - he's at the bank. Apparently there's some a$$h0!& in FL who hacked into my bank account & stole EVERYTHING from my checking & savings accounts. That's right ladies - that's EVERYTHING FI and I have saved for the wedding. There's $2.50 left in my savings account.

My father went to use the ATM this morning but the machine wasn't accepting his transaction. He went inside and was informed that there's a little less than 10 bucks left at that bank in his name. Of course that's not possible, so they checked into all the accounts in his name. My father's name is attached in joint to my account & it turns out they emptied my account too. We don't know who they got to first. There's over $20k missing from both my checking & savings and they got my parents for nearly $200 thousand. There's over $15k in purchases from Walmart and other large stores in my name. I've been on the phone all morning with my credit card companies, I had a meeting with my HR rep and I'm waiting to hear from my parents before I contact Social Security because whoever this is might have my SS #.

The silver lining here is that my father - before he retired - was VP of international fraud at a large bank - so of course Dad's on the case and some jerk in Florida has NO IDEA the $h!+storm that's on the way.

I have ZERO idea how this happened. I don't bank online, I have a special credit card for online purchases, I shred everything with my name on it, I don't get direct deposit from work - geez, I even tear my name off magazines before I throw them out!

If there's a lesson to be learned here - PLEASE make sure everything you have is protected to the umpteenth degree.

Oh my gosh I'm so sorry to hear this! I hope you can get all of your money and your parents money recovered!

I had my bank card number stolen a few months ago. Thankfully my bank cleared all the charges and gave me my money back and a new card after canceling the old one.

I hope you get it all worked out!

Thanks for the kind words everyone. The update is that they think it's a bank employee who got a hold of some information (prob my Dad's) and was able to manipulate our info. The address on the accounts was changed so somewhere in Pensacola, FL - so even if they called, emailed or sent a letter to confirm the change of information - the contact would've been with the person who changed it in the 1st place.

The bank said they should be able to refund the money within 6 mos but the woman basically told my father, "oh we dunno who did it, we can give you the $$ back though". As in, they're just gonna let this go. She told my father, "Well, you'd have to fill out a police report and it's a lot of paperwork" etc. My Dad almost flipped on the lady & told her calmly "So fill out the paperwork. This is your job." He's on his way to file a police report now.

I don't think the Walmart purchase was a lump some of $15k - it was spread out over the week since 1/20.

@ Mrs. DG - that's a good thought, but my dad retired about 9yrs ago so I doubt that could be it.

I can't believe the bank doesn't want to do anything to find the person?!?!  I would think as a bank you would want the pristine reputation of protecting your customers against fraud especially when it's one of their own employees!  That seems absolutely crazy to me!  I would def want to contact some news agency to say that XYZ Bank refuses to try to find who did defrauded you because "It's too much paperwork".

Man, that sucks!  Glad you're getting the money back though, at least that's a huge relief.