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#2248405 - 01/29/21 08:31 PM Enough Information for a SAR
Susielou Offline
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A customer's account started having fraudulent checks come through. The account was closed. There were 26 checks that tried to clear from three different banks. All the checks were mobile deposited to the banks. We don't have much information. Do I file a SAR with suspect information marked as "Unknown?"

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#2248410 - 01/29/21 09:02 PM Re: Enough Information for a SAR Susielou
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Depends on whether or not you consider the payees of these checks subjects or scam victims.
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#2248411 - 01/29/21 09:02 PM Re: Enough Information for a SAR Susielou
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And do the checks total $25,000.00 or greater?
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#2248464 - 02/01/21 04:06 PM Re: Enough Information for a SAR Skittles
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The checks total $20,400. We do not know anything about the payees on the checks.

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#2248466 - 02/01/21 04:20 PM Re: Enough Information for a SAR Susielou
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Sorry, the checks total $39,900. We do not have any information about the payees of the checks.

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#2248469 - 02/01/21 04:30 PM Re: Enough Information for a SAR Susielou
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I would file a SAR and list the payee names as subjects. Now that you are over $25,000 you don't have a choice, so you might as well include whatever you have.

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#2248487 - 02/01/21 06:21 PM Re: Enough Information for a SAR Susielou
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Even if there are fifteen payees?

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#2248489 - 02/01/21 06:28 PM Re: Enough Information for a SAR Susielou
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If we don't list payees as subjects, we state why in the narrative. Believing they were victims of a scam is often one of the reasons, we can support that. The more payees we see, the more likely we are to believe that to be the case.

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