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EDITORIAL QUICK THINKING.


A 70-year-old Lancaster man would be $25,000 poorer today if he had gone to a less astute bank teller A bank teller is an employee of a bank who deals directly with most customers. In some places this employee is known as a cashier.

Tellers are considered a "front line" in the banking business.
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But, thankfully, when Gilbert Polaco tried to withdraw the cash, he told teller Maria Morris he needed his money to buy a $136,000 winning lottery ticket from an illegal immigrant illegal immigrant n. an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa. (See: alien) .

Morris smelled a rat and sheriff's deputies were alerted about what sounded like a common scam (SCSI Configured AutoMatically) A subset of Plug and Play that allows SCSI IDs to be changed by software rather than by flipping switches or changing jumpers. Both the SCSI host adapter and peripheral must support SCAM. See SCSI.  used to victimize the elderly. Unable to talk to Polaco about the deal, deputies followed him to where he was supposed to meet the scammers.

The result is that three suspects are in jail on grand theft charges and Polaco still has his $25,000.

Morris and other Washington Mutual “WaMu” redirects here. For the Washington, DC radio station, see WAMU.

Washington Mutual (or WaMu; NYSE: WM) is the United States' largest savings and loan association.
 employees are to be commended for their fast thinking and caring attitude.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Article Type:Editorial
Date:Feb 13, 2000
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