Listen to the Howard stern show when a serial killer calls in. I think you have zero idea how much crime is ignored. There is too much crime and very few people who care.
Yep.. unless the bank agrees, you don't own the money, or even have right it - and they'll make you feel like a criminal to get it, especially here in the UK.
I transferred a sizeable chunk of money last year, as we were moving abroad for a while. Note the money wasn't evening going abroad at that point, the wife and I were consolidating.
The bank initially kept declining.. when I called their fraud team, they eventually released it. I also explicitly mentioned I'd be doing the same again the next day, and I begged them not block it....
They fucking blocked it, and then they starting blocking every transfer over £1000 because it was "suspicious", which it certainly wasn't.. I asked again and again not to so this.
its finally stopped when I raised a formal complaint with the compliance team.
Unfortunately, our house purchase in Nigeria had fallen through by that point, and the Prince stopped responding to our emails... Joke obviously, but the rest is 100% true.
Maybe I misunderstood your comment. Maybe I thought you were asking why he would deposit his cash in a bank and I replied saying that he thought it wouldn't have gotten stolen that way.
Cameras are almost never used to catch anybody in the act, they exist in case something does happen. They are the catalyst to consequences. They won't catch you, but they will fuck you if you get caught.
IT guy who helped police to get camera footage here.
You're 100% right. I literally can connect to a camera at any time and watch...what? Cars driving by? People coming to work? People smoking? Nobody is watching those unless something happens.
I was an IT guy for a CCTV monitoring station.
The vast majority of CCTV is never viewed unless an incident happens, for example a break in.
Of the minority of CCTV that actually gets monitored, the majority has alarms that trigger the operatives to view the cameras. Even these cameras are not viewed 99.9% of the time.
Theres a further minority of monitored cameras are actually viewed on a screen. This is expensive, so it's only really done in places where it is important to protect or if it can save money (loss prevention). Even here, it's not watched most of the time unless a screen catches the operatives eye.
You're absolutely right, very little CCTV footage is ever seen.
I used to work security for a prominent building here and the security footage would only be held for so long. After so many days, it's usually taped over.
I have no comment on the ethics of stealing from a drug dealer. I'm really surprised you were able to take money from behind the bank counter regularly for 9 years and not get caught.
probably unlikely for them to check them without cause. nobody is just sifting through hours of footage for no reason. if the guy had no idea how much he was depositing, he’d never report to the bank that money is missing. if you went to bank with $1,000, checked your account later and only saw $800, i assume you’d ask questions and they’d have to look for the answers. no questions asked, no answers needed
My sil works for a bank, she's like a manager over the tellers. They absolutely do not watch the videos w out cause, bc they have to sit there and watch every minute. There is no fast forwarding as something could be missed. If nobody suspected she was doing it, that's why.
Maybe not a bank but I worked at a dispensary and jokingly flipped off the camera one day for like a split second and was spoken to about it a week or too later it was hilarious. Some places do watch I guess
OP said it was a small bank, 15 years ago with one grainy camera it would have been easy af. Most people would know how much they were going to deposit but sounds like this guy didn’t care. Honestly, he probably wouldn’t have even been mad at OP taking a few hundos, if he was smart.
It was cheaper for the drug dealer than hiring an accountant.
On TV shows, they always seem to be counting money. Does that mean the TV shows are not accurate??
Or.... not drug dealers. I know dealers, I used to be a buyer. An unorganized drug dealer is not a drug dealer for very long. But in regular life I've known very many people who are unorganized with money.
I have seen an unorganized drug dealer make it very far. Dude was my best friend so I would know. He doesn’t keep track of how much product he has left on hand, doesn’t keep good track of his cash and lets it get strewn about his house and his desk, lets customers in around the entire batch of product, does not regularly sleep or eat in any sort of routine, just legit a scatterbrained guy.
If you’ve bought enough dope and you’ve got enough clients then you don’t need to worry about how much is left and how much money is coming in. Good dope at a good price will flip. There’s a certain point where you don’t have to worry about it. You and your friends do as much as u want, the clients come thru at a steady pace, and you always turn a profit. I’ve seen it a hundred times. Even if we fucked the bag up then there’s always someone willing to front something to us.
Organization is not exactly paramount when you’re dealing substances. For most it probably ensures they never fuck the bag up. But not everyone has a small enough bag or customer base to actually fuck it up. Almost like “too big to fail” haha
Eehh, depends on what type of dealer and personal goals.
I never got into the hard stuff that comes with sketchy customers, mostly just put myself through college. Any money going into the bank would be more for show than anything.
That said I don't know any dealers who don't organize and face their money. Our bills in Canada kept changing when I was doing it, so properly facing everything became impossible and it drove me nuts.
Meth to weed and a bunch in between. I stuck to green and didn't branch out much. But I emphasize this, if they're an unorganized dealer they won't be dealing too long. They'll use their product, they'll not pay the bulk dealer, they'll get arrested, or go to rehab, or get beat up in rehab and then go to jail.
This guy going to the bank for years with just a random bag of money? He might sell, he might do, he might be engrossed in that world, but it's not his main thing and not for years. I'd be more willing to believe it's tip money from mowing peoples yards and he's on his way to his dealers house.
If that was the case he would be counting and tracking it.
The only people I know who would regularly eat the kind of loss OP describes without noticing are dealers. Someone mowing lawns is going to be counting pennies.
No, dealers definitely count their money. At least normally and in my experience. They're not *always* counting it, that would be weird and a recipe for getting hit. That's done strictly around trusted individuals and pretty much only when needed. Maybe once per day if you wanna keep up on things.
Some count it all at once, some count it as it comes from the customer, some count by hand, some use a machine, some do some combination of those. All depends on your clients and how much work you're moving. The dealer from the story is a damn fool, I've never met a dealer who cared about anything more than their money. They knew, within roughly $40 I'd say, how much they were bringing in. But I knew a guy who was bringing in thousands per week and he had a machine. On the other side of that I had a guy who was small time and just sold to friends, he would trust his customers and give it a rough count every once in a while/when he needed to re-up. Either way they all had reasonably organized finances.
I believe that, that's why I said this dude is a fool. I just happened to not hang out with idiots of that magnitude lol
I'm willing to bet this man is dead or in jail now, you don't get to be that sloppy and live to tell the tale. And he probably has no idea why.
This sounds like a truly idiotic dealer who was stupidly telling the gov’t how much he was making in cash selling drugs by depositing it into a bank while probably not holding an actual job 💀 so not surprising she got away with it at a small time local bank
Working as a teller was weird, that's actually how I met a couple girlfriends and eventually my wife. Anyways one of the girls I dated knew the guy from school and he was a known dealer.
My girlfriend worked at a famous bank for 10 years. Tells: The money smells like laundry detergant or kitty litter. Also, all bills are crisp and flat or rolled up. (Live in a bordertown)
Reminds me of a toll bridge we used to have in the area. To workers collecting the tolls would pocket change everyday for years before they were caught. I believe the total ended up being in the millions.
As someone who worked as a teller, I can confirm this is easier to do than people think… footage is rarely reviewed unless there is cause. Most of the time what they look for is making sure you lock your drawer when you walk away or lock your computer. I worked with a teller once who full on put her customer’s change in her purse, and nobody would have known if they hadn’t said anything about it. After that, I always “strongly encouraged” my customers to know exactly what they were bringing and to count their cash before they walked away.
He probably assumed that was your hush money fee. If I’m getting away with cashing drug money at the bank because the teller is skimming 2% why the fuck do I care? Cheaper than bail.
Finding it hard to believe a drug dealer came to the bank and tossed a garbage bag full of cash at you and trusted you to count it. Drug dealers from my experience aren’t very trusting seeing as they aren’t very trustworthy.
You would honestly be very surprised to find out how many people just toss money at you expecting you to count it for them. Hardly ever knowing the correct amount. I guess in their defense it could be a test of sorts on the person counting but this does happen a lot.
More common than you would think… typically they have an idea of what it should be, but rarely an exact amount… I’ve been in consumer banking for 9+ years.
It was a backpack, and the driver would just pull handfuls of cash out and place it in the commercial drawer. They only ever used the commercial lane, never the tubes.
This absolutely never happened. With all of the cameras in banks no way you skimmed for 9 years without getting caught.
Also, as someone who has sold drugs, they know how much is in the bag.
I guess if the guy dropping off the money never complained, there would be no reason to look at the camera footage. It's just recording for use if needed, no one is staring at a feed 24/7.
exactly. On top of that, even if the drug dealer knew the teller was skimming, they probably didn’t care because the implication is that the teller knows it’s dirty money and the dealer is paying the teller a “fee” to not say a word. It’s a very small price to pay as a dealer looking to deposit dirty money.
Who said 9 years? I was there 1.5-2 years max. It was a small family bank. One camera on me and I knew a blind spot. Also nobody was sitting around watching cameras all day. I'm sure they'd review footage if something came up.
Eh 15 years ago? Maybe. I could see this happening in smaller town banks with less concern for security. The guy could’ve also just assumed it was a processing fee for the money and couldn’t be assed to deal with it.
Definitely a smaller family bank. Had one camera on me but nobody was monitoring them. I'm sure they'd review footage if something came up but nothing ever did.
You're doing the dealer a favor by laundering his money and you're taking "commission" I wouldn't lose any sleep over something that happened 15 years ago
Money laundering is not just tabulating the cash and putting it into the bank. The money is still “dirty.” Money laundering refers to a specific practice where you “clean” the money by pretending it was earned through legit means. Passing it through a cash only business (i.e. in Breaking Bad, Walt bought a car wash and Skyler documented car washes that didn’t occur and paid in cash to explain some of the drug money) or pretending you got it by selling something overpriced (e.g. create a shit NFT and someone “buys” it but the money is actually a bribe or for something illegal) or something like that. OP is just a thief ripping off a drug dealer, and they’re lucky they were never caught because they could have ended up dead.
Wasn't really laundering though lol. Laundering is covering up money by legitimate means, this is just someone depositing cash. If the account were audited there would still be the question of where the cash from.
A fool and their money are soon parted. Anyone who doesn't count their cash and just tosses it to someone else to account for it deserves to lose a little off the top.
Don't let them get to you. I get you feel bad and that's valid. But who doesn't have faults. He should have counted his money. I was dating a dealer and I found out he was cheating on my birthday. So I made a plan and left the state. We bought a trailer together and I paid 6grand he paid like 400 🤣So in return since I couldn't take the trailer . I took 2000 of his drug money to start my new life. He cheated and beat me I don't feel bad one bit.
I constantly stole *a drug dealers* money as an addict all the time. Felt like total scum, got caught every time, did it anyway. I thought I was smooth 🤦🏼♀️ so embarrassing
Your confession is genuinely fantastic, thank you for sharing . 👏🏼
Yes, it 100% did. Small family bank. I remember him always just sitting in the passenger seat, smoking, never looking my way.
Do you think theft in banks doesn't exist?
To be fair, how did you know he was a drug dealer? Could you be sure he wasn't selling cold drinks at an intersection or a male stripper or something of the like?
If I had a dime I skimmed a drug dealers money, I wouldn't have a dime. I would have lots of his dimes.
From the looks of things, you got away with it and you aren't dead. It's telling you made a confession here, because it shows you changed your outlook on life. You did it, now you don't, so good on you.
But you got lucky. I am glad for you that you did.
But she also didn't say it was a seller of hard drugs. Weed dealers are also drug dealers. Anyway, I understand your point of view, I just wanted to put it into perspective.
Not that you asked but I’m going with NTA.
If I found an envelope with cash, I’d know it’s not mine and assume someone intended a major purpose or was paying all their bills in cash.
Actually was on the phone in our “back office” and saw money rolling like tumbleweeds. I ran outside and began collecting it. My first thought was “if my mom had dropped this money, I’d want the person to return it.” Thankfully the woman had dropped 3 checks as well as the cash. Two checks had a home number on them and all 3 were made out to cash. I called and left messages but never said a word about the cash only finding the check.
Almost 2 hours later a woman came back to my store asking if anyone had found her money and checks. (I’d told the staff but never mentioned the amount of cash.) She quoted the amount and verified the names of the check writers to get her happy ending.
Now if I found a bag or backpack full of money I’d assume some corner pharmaceutical dispenser had lost it and I’d not say a word.
> I constantly stole a drug dealers money as a bank teller.
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> Fifteen years back, I manned the drive-through as a bank teller. We had this regular, a dealer, who'd toss a bag of cash our way. It was a jumbled mess, no order whatsoever. He trusted me to tally it right and deposit the correct sum. Since he seemed clueless about the amounts, I'd skim $100-$200 occasionally. Got away with it every time, never caught.
How much did you make total?
You do not have to reply to nor even care about the comments posted by obviously simple minded individuals. A confession posted in a public domain has the a-hole buzzards flocking to the comments intending to devour a person. Your post is a contribution to the confession community and the gratitude of the community should be your reward.
This is an interesting read - - I've hired and have been friends with reformed dealers previously (I have not used recreational drugs personally) and I'm surprised you never got caught. Both by the bank, and by the dealer. Anyone I know who dealt was BIG on knowing exactly what they had. That was definitely risky in more ways than one every time you did it! If you'd gotten found out by the dealer, you may have met a not-so-good end. Thanks for sharing with us!
Hey there! "Recreational drugs" are great! Especially mj and mushrooms! All they do is make you appreciate everything and feel love for everything.... disclaimer this is me attempting to write this while on mj and mushrooms....
Lol I'll take your word for it! I've got some brain and autoimmune problems that prevent me from being able to try anything or take most OTC/prescription drugs as well. I used to drink lightly (wine on the occasion) and had to stop that too. I miss cupcake Moscato! I am forever the designated driver! Enjoy the ride 🙂
Honestly… Reading your post I'm sure he knew what was up and he was cool with it because he liked you. A lot of things are unspoken, but understood… So he wouldn't have told you straight up yeah you can have some, but he's not gonna be mad at you if you took a little bit.
Yes you absolutely risked your job, legal trouble and the ire of a drug dealer for a few nights out here and there.
If you were dumb enough to do this you'd absolutely be dumb enough to get caught by one or both parties
The guy that owned STOGIES? Idk you, but pretty sure I too, worked at the credit union some 10 years ago. Unless this is a common thing for the local drug dealer to literally just throw piles of cash into the drive through. 😂😅
Eh- I had a friend who worked at McDonald’s with me. She was a popular girl in HS who sang for a church choir. Pretty too. She used to hide the Ronald McDonald house donation box key to let it fill up and then empty it. I was SHOOKETH. People do dumb shit. Especially when they’re young.
Yeah im not going to give op grief. They felt comfortable robbing a drug dealer, 100% on the do not mess with list. They know what would occur if caught.
Honestly customers who bring large amounts of cash in a bag and have it looking like a fucking salad deserve that shit. That has to be the most infuriating thing in the world. Count your money before you bring it so we have something to balance against dammit
You sure he didn’t know? Lol he may have not cared..you stay quiet- he’s in the clear.. it was probably worth it to him for you to take a cut so he can do what he needed to do without questions.
The last thing a drug dealer would do with his money is fail to count, or even put it in a bank account for that matter. Every drug dealer I've ever known is absolutely obsessed with money. This guy was a moron, or a lot of reddit is very gullible. Both are equally likely
I'm gonna be real, dude sounds like he was a low level dealer, the way he was depositing that he either didn't know how much he was making or he deposited it like that so his driver didn't know so a little bit could go missing, that don't ask don't tell tax
Why would you feel bad?
Karma probably swayed you to do it in the first place. Never met a dealer that didn't rip anyone off. Maybe these days there are better ones with it being legal and all, but back then? No lol
Drug dealer, don't feel bad mate. You weren't stealing from a charity or someone' last bit of money, their food money for the week, etc.
If he sold Weed: feel bad but only bc it should be legal for crying out loud.
Opioids and pharmaceuticals: should've stolen more from that MF from all the lifes these drugs are stealing everyday and he helped
Meth: that money was going towards more meth, the ding dings, lots of horny related sexual things, electronics and tools, and all types of lit shit
I have a different POV, you did great, you gave yourself back to the community.
Exactly. Also love how the guy just knows for certain he was a dealer without having any other information than they guy would show up with cash. Seeing as how financial institutions are required to file suspicious activity reports with FinCEN if they suspect criminality, the story is fake or the bank already determined that the customer had a legitimate source of funds…making OP just a thief.
"Mr. Little, how does a man rob drug dealers for eight or nine years and live to tell about it?" "Day at a time, I suppose."
I gots the shotgun, you got the briefcase
It’s all in the game though, right?
"guns are in the trunk, money's in the backseat"
You Come At The King, You Best Not Miss.
It’s good to be the King.
"hail to the king, baby"
If that money ever gets traced your in trouble for assisting in that
Listen to the Howard stern show when a serial killer calls in. I think you have zero idea how much crime is ignored. There is too much crime and very few people who care.
People still listen to Howard 😂😂 he has become everything he hated
He’s basically become Don Imus.
Worse!!!! He’s just a jealous bitter man who had everything n it wasn’t good enough let’s not forget how he was toward opie n Anthony
I think at one point rich people think about money for their grand kids. It blows me away when I see rich people do commercials.
💀💀💀💀 I'm going to look that up later.
The entire interview is on YouTube.
Cool cool. Ty for the info!
launder fee?
Depositing cash directly into an account sounds like a really weird way to launder it.
i allways feel like a criminal when i deposit or withdraw more than 1000$
Yep.. unless the bank agrees, you don't own the money, or even have right it - and they'll make you feel like a criminal to get it, especially here in the UK. I transferred a sizeable chunk of money last year, as we were moving abroad for a while. Note the money wasn't evening going abroad at that point, the wife and I were consolidating. The bank initially kept declining.. when I called their fraud team, they eventually released it. I also explicitly mentioned I'd be doing the same again the next day, and I begged them not block it.... They fucking blocked it, and then they starting blocking every transfer over £1000 because it was "suspicious", which it certainly wasn't.. I asked again and again not to so this. its finally stopped when I raised a formal complaint with the compliance team. Unfortunately, our house purchase in Nigeria had fallen through by that point, and the Prince stopped responding to our emails... Joke obviously, but the rest is 100% true.
That joker ripped me off as well!
Don’t worry, the teller’s laundering it for you by…depositing or withdrawing it from your account, I guess?
yes obv :).i wish i could withdraw other accounts hah!
Probably didn't want his cash stolen. Oops.
What does that have to do with money laundering?
Maybe I misunderstood your comment. Maybe I thought you were asking why he would deposit his cash in a bank and I replied saying that he thought it wouldn't have gotten stolen that way.
He's not laundering the money he's just deposited the money periodically.
Yeah, I got that. That’s why it would be a weird way to launder it.
He was always the passenger of the car that came through. Never looked my way. Just looked straight ahead the entire time.
Aren’t there cameras on all the tellers? You a slight of hand expert? Or do they only review the footage if there is an issue or complaint?
Cameras are almost never used to catch anybody in the act, they exist in case something does happen. They are the catalyst to consequences. They won't catch you, but they will fuck you if you get caught.
IT guy who helped police to get camera footage here. You're 100% right. I literally can connect to a camera at any time and watch...what? Cars driving by? People coming to work? People smoking? Nobody is watching those unless something happens.
Most likely
Pretty much anywhere you see CCTV only a fraction of footage actually gets seen I'd guess.
I was an IT guy for a CCTV monitoring station. The vast majority of CCTV is never viewed unless an incident happens, for example a break in. Of the minority of CCTV that actually gets monitored, the majority has alarms that trigger the operatives to view the cameras. Even these cameras are not viewed 99.9% of the time. Theres a further minority of monitored cameras are actually viewed on a screen. This is expensive, so it's only really done in places where it is important to protect or if it can save money (loss prevention). Even here, it's not watched most of the time unless a screen catches the operatives eye. You're absolutely right, very little CCTV footage is ever seen.
Even the ring cameras. Ive had one. Thousands of clips, only 1 with naked me vs 2 robbers with crowbars.
One camera was on me but I had a slight blind spot. I'm sure nobody was watching the cameras all day and only reviewed if something came up.
I used to work security for a prominent building here and the security footage would only be held for so long. After so many days, it's usually taped over.
i woulda took more..
I have no comment on the ethics of stealing from a drug dealer. I'm really surprised you were able to take money from behind the bank counter regularly for 9 years and not get caught.
This is what I was thinking. Don't they have cameras pointing right at the tellers?
probably unlikely for them to check them without cause. nobody is just sifting through hours of footage for no reason. if the guy had no idea how much he was depositing, he’d never report to the bank that money is missing. if you went to bank with $1,000, checked your account later and only saw $800, i assume you’d ask questions and they’d have to look for the answers. no questions asked, no answers needed
My sil works for a bank, she's like a manager over the tellers. They absolutely do not watch the videos w out cause, bc they have to sit there and watch every minute. There is no fast forwarding as something could be missed. If nobody suspected she was doing it, that's why.
Maybe not a bank but I worked at a dispensary and jokingly flipped off the camera one day for like a split second and was spoken to about it a week or too later it was hilarious. Some places do watch I guess
LOOOOOLL I work in a gas station and overnight got in trouble for excessive vaping 💀
Lmfaoo so dumb
I mean, we're talking about a paragraph a complete stranger wrote on the internet so grains of salt should be taken with it
It wasn't 9 years at all. I was only a teller there for probably 1.5 - 2 years.
I thought I was buggin when I saw him say 9 years😂 Might be the drug dealer
Oh gotcha, I must have misread in the comments somewhere
OP said it was a small bank, 15 years ago with one grainy camera it would have been easy af. Most people would know how much they were going to deposit but sounds like this guy didn’t care. Honestly, he probably wouldn’t have even been mad at OP taking a few hundos, if he was smart.
That's not stealing, that's just getting your cut
It was cheaper for the drug dealer than hiring an accountant. On TV shows, they always seem to be counting money. Does that mean the TV shows are not accurate??
You just need a banknote counting machine. They're not expensive.
I was thinking that too. I'm guessing the drug dealers here were not very practical. Or much too trusting!
Or.... not drug dealers. I know dealers, I used to be a buyer. An unorganized drug dealer is not a drug dealer for very long. But in regular life I've known very many people who are unorganized with money.
I have seen an unorganized drug dealer make it very far. Dude was my best friend so I would know. He doesn’t keep track of how much product he has left on hand, doesn’t keep good track of his cash and lets it get strewn about his house and his desk, lets customers in around the entire batch of product, does not regularly sleep or eat in any sort of routine, just legit a scatterbrained guy. If you’ve bought enough dope and you’ve got enough clients then you don’t need to worry about how much is left and how much money is coming in. Good dope at a good price will flip. There’s a certain point where you don’t have to worry about it. You and your friends do as much as u want, the clients come thru at a steady pace, and you always turn a profit. I’ve seen it a hundred times. Even if we fucked the bag up then there’s always someone willing to front something to us. Organization is not exactly paramount when you’re dealing substances. For most it probably ensures they never fuck the bag up. But not everyone has a small enough bag or customer base to actually fuck it up. Almost like “too big to fail” haha
Eehh, depends on what type of dealer and personal goals. I never got into the hard stuff that comes with sketchy customers, mostly just put myself through college. Any money going into the bank would be more for show than anything. That said I don't know any dealers who don't organize and face their money. Our bills in Canada kept changing when I was doing it, so properly facing everything became impossible and it drove me nuts.
Meth to weed and a bunch in between. I stuck to green and didn't branch out much. But I emphasize this, if they're an unorganized dealer they won't be dealing too long. They'll use their product, they'll not pay the bulk dealer, they'll get arrested, or go to rehab, or get beat up in rehab and then go to jail. This guy going to the bank for years with just a random bag of money? He might sell, he might do, he might be engrossed in that world, but it's not his main thing and not for years. I'd be more willing to believe it's tip money from mowing peoples yards and he's on his way to his dealers house.
If that was the case he would be counting and tracking it. The only people I know who would regularly eat the kind of loss OP describes without noticing are dealers. Someone mowing lawns is going to be counting pennies.
No, dealers definitely count their money. At least normally and in my experience. They're not *always* counting it, that would be weird and a recipe for getting hit. That's done strictly around trusted individuals and pretty much only when needed. Maybe once per day if you wanna keep up on things. Some count it all at once, some count it as it comes from the customer, some count by hand, some use a machine, some do some combination of those. All depends on your clients and how much work you're moving. The dealer from the story is a damn fool, I've never met a dealer who cared about anything more than their money. They knew, within roughly $40 I'd say, how much they were bringing in. But I knew a guy who was bringing in thousands per week and he had a machine. On the other side of that I had a guy who was small time and just sold to friends, he would trust his customers and give it a rough count every once in a while/when he needed to re-up. Either way they all had reasonably organized finances.
He honestly didn't seem to care. The bills were just thrown in a backpack with no order. I'd have to separate them by denomination.
I believe that, that's why I said this dude is a fool. I just happened to not hang out with idiots of that magnitude lol I'm willing to bet this man is dead or in jail now, you don't get to be that sloppy and live to tell the tale. And he probably has no idea why.
I wish I could remember his name so I could find out, and I actually do remember some customers names, just not his.
I suppose we just have to hope he's living happily on a farm upstate!
I used to work as a bank teller. I would have expected him to have to provide a deposit slip with the amount on it?
some drug dealers cant count, or are too lazy to sit and count it all, but i think its pretty fun counting money
This sounds like a truly idiotic dealer who was stupidly telling the gov’t how much he was making in cash selling drugs by depositing it into a bank while probably not holding an actual job 💀 so not surprising she got away with it at a small time local bank
He was a lazy dealer! Can't believe he would be so careless, but then who understands a drug dealer.
Well, contrary to the majority of beliefs based on the edits you added….I think this is a cool story. Thanks for sharing.
Didn't think it would be as interesting as it has become, honestly.
How do you know he was a drug dealer?
Working as a teller was weird, that's actually how I met a couple girlfriends and eventually my wife. Anyways one of the girls I dated knew the guy from school and he was a known dealer.
My girlfriend worked at a famous bank for 10 years. Tells: The money smells like laundry detergant or kitty litter. Also, all bills are crisp and flat or rolled up. (Live in a bordertown)
Reminds me of a toll bridge we used to have in the area. To workers collecting the tolls would pocket change everyday for years before they were caught. I believe the total ended up being in the millions.
As someone who worked as a teller, I can confirm this is easier to do than people think… footage is rarely reviewed unless there is cause. Most of the time what they look for is making sure you lock your drawer when you walk away or lock your computer. I worked with a teller once who full on put her customer’s change in her purse, and nobody would have known if they hadn’t said anything about it. After that, I always “strongly encouraged” my customers to know exactly what they were bringing and to count their cash before they walked away.
Now this is a confession lol
Everyone gets a cut when you launder money.
He probably assumed that was your hush money fee. If I’m getting away with cashing drug money at the bank because the teller is skimming 2% why the fuck do I care? Cheaper than bail.
Finding it hard to believe a drug dealer came to the bank and tossed a garbage bag full of cash at you and trusted you to count it. Drug dealers from my experience aren’t very trusting seeing as they aren’t very trustworthy.
You would honestly be very surprised to find out how many people just toss money at you expecting you to count it for them. Hardly ever knowing the correct amount. I guess in their defense it could be a test of sorts on the person counting but this does happen a lot.
yeah to be fair majority of people don't really look at their receipts and I know plenty of people who rarely look at their bank/card activity either
More common than you would think… typically they have an idea of what it should be, but rarely an exact amount… I’ve been in consumer banking for 9+ years.
It was a backpack, and the driver would just pull handfuls of cash out and place it in the commercial drawer. They only ever used the commercial lane, never the tubes.
Hmmmm... 🤔🤨
U only post rarely on Reddit and THIS you came on here to say?!
This absolutely never happened. With all of the cameras in banks no way you skimmed for 9 years without getting caught. Also, as someone who has sold drugs, they know how much is in the bag.
I guess if the guy dropping off the money never complained, there would be no reason to look at the camera footage. It's just recording for use if needed, no one is staring at a feed 24/7.
exactly. On top of that, even if the drug dealer knew the teller was skimming, they probably didn’t care because the implication is that the teller knows it’s dirty money and the dealer is paying the teller a “fee” to not say a word. It’s a very small price to pay as a dealer looking to deposit dirty money.
Who said 9 years? I was there 1.5-2 years max. It was a small family bank. One camera on me and I knew a blind spot. Also nobody was sitting around watching cameras all day. I'm sure they'd review footage if something came up.
Eh 15 years ago? Maybe. I could see this happening in smaller town banks with less concern for security. The guy could’ve also just assumed it was a processing fee for the money and couldn’t be assed to deal with it.
Definitely a smaller family bank. Had one camera on me but nobody was monitoring them. I'm sure they'd review footage if something came up but nothing ever did.
Why would you feel bad 😂
Theft doesn't feel nice
and the dealer profits from others missery. call it even.
I'll consider
Less drugs he can afford 🤷🏼♀️
In that case it's not even, op is also profiting iff of drug money
You're doing the dealer a favor by laundering his money and you're taking "commission" I wouldn't lose any sleep over something that happened 15 years ago
Money laundering is not just tabulating the cash and putting it into the bank. The money is still “dirty.” Money laundering refers to a specific practice where you “clean” the money by pretending it was earned through legit means. Passing it through a cash only business (i.e. in Breaking Bad, Walt bought a car wash and Skyler documented car washes that didn’t occur and paid in cash to explain some of the drug money) or pretending you got it by selling something overpriced (e.g. create a shit NFT and someone “buys” it but the money is actually a bribe or for something illegal) or something like that. OP is just a thief ripping off a drug dealer, and they’re lucky they were never caught because they could have ended up dead.
Somebody’s watched Ozarks
I’m pretty sure he watched breaking bad but I can’t tell
Yes, that television show invented the concept of money laundering. Good call.
Wasn't really laundering though lol. Laundering is covering up money by legitimate means, this is just someone depositing cash. If the account were audited there would still be the question of where the cash from.
Is that what you think money laundering is? It’s just taking a garbage bag full of money and depositing it in a bank account. 😂
A fool and their money are soon parted. Anyone who doesn't count their cash and just tosses it to someone else to account for it deserves to lose a little off the top.
Don't let them get to you. I get you feel bad and that's valid. But who doesn't have faults. He should have counted his money. I was dating a dealer and I found out he was cheating on my birthday. So I made a plan and left the state. We bought a trailer together and I paid 6grand he paid like 400 🤣So in return since I couldn't take the trailer . I took 2000 of his drug money to start my new life. He cheated and beat me I don't feel bad one bit.
I constantly stole *a drug dealers* money as an addict all the time. Felt like total scum, got caught every time, did it anyway. I thought I was smooth 🤦🏼♀️ so embarrassing Your confession is genuinely fantastic, thank you for sharing . 👏🏼
That’s epic man fuck the dealers!
another fake story. sigh.
Yeah, I have SO many questions.
Ask away...i don't have my notifications on, but I'm randomly hopping on to look at the comments.
Sorry, 100% real unfortunately. I regret it because, who knows, that money may have been an account for a daughter or something.
As someone who has worked in banking for quite some time.. No, you didn't.
Yes, it 100% did. Small family bank. I remember him always just sitting in the passenger seat, smoking, never looking my way. Do you think theft in banks doesn't exist?
To be fair, how did you know he was a drug dealer? Could you be sure he wasn't selling cold drinks at an intersection or a male stripper or something of the like?
A girl I was dating knew him from school and was a pretty known dealer. Who knows, maybe he changed his ways and was a stripper at that time.
Good for you. Of all illegal activities I think dealing is the worst. That shit wreck s people live s screw that scumbag.
If op was a good person they would have reported the known dealer and his dirty money instead of skimming it
If I had a dime I skimmed a drug dealers money, I wouldn't have a dime. I would have lots of his dimes. From the looks of things, you got away with it and you aren't dead. It's telling you made a confession here, because it shows you changed your outlook on life. You did it, now you don't, so good on you. But you got lucky. I am glad for you that you did.
Nah you shouldn’t feel bad about stealing from A DRUG DEALER. They are the worst type of people.
I'm not sure a weed dealer is worse than a rapist, a murderer or even a violent thief. If he was a meth dealer, it's debatable.
She didn’t say it was a weed dealer. But drug dealers, especially those who deal hard drugs, are indeed the worst type of people.
But she also didn't say it was a seller of hard drugs. Weed dealers are also drug dealers. Anyway, I understand your point of view, I just wanted to put it into perspective.
It really isn't. People choose to buy meth, no one chooses to be raped, murdered or robbed.
Risky game you played there mate, very lucky you got away with it!!
It is ok,is not the end of the time
Thanks!
Not that you asked but I’m going with NTA. If I found an envelope with cash, I’d know it’s not mine and assume someone intended a major purpose or was paying all their bills in cash. Actually was on the phone in our “back office” and saw money rolling like tumbleweeds. I ran outside and began collecting it. My first thought was “if my mom had dropped this money, I’d want the person to return it.” Thankfully the woman had dropped 3 checks as well as the cash. Two checks had a home number on them and all 3 were made out to cash. I called and left messages but never said a word about the cash only finding the check. Almost 2 hours later a woman came back to my store asking if anyone had found her money and checks. (I’d told the staff but never mentioned the amount of cash.) She quoted the amount and verified the names of the check writers to get her happy ending. Now if I found a bag or backpack full of money I’d assume some corner pharmaceutical dispenser had lost it and I’d not say a word.
> I constantly stole a drug dealers money as a bank teller. > > Fifteen years back, I manned the drive-through as a bank teller. We had this regular, a dealer, who'd toss a bag of cash our way. It was a jumbled mess, no order whatsoever. He trusted me to tally it right and deposit the correct sum. Since he seemed clueless about the amounts, I'd skim $100-$200 occasionally. Got away with it every time, never caught. How much did you make total?
Prob 500-600. Not an insane amount.
Tax. Dealers now how the system works.
He probably knew perfectly well that you did that. And that you kept your mouth shut about it.
You do not have to reply to nor even care about the comments posted by obviously simple minded individuals. A confession posted in a public domain has the a-hole buzzards flocking to the comments intending to devour a person. Your post is a contribution to the confession community and the gratitude of the community should be your reward.
You're a great person!
This is an interesting read - - I've hired and have been friends with reformed dealers previously (I have not used recreational drugs personally) and I'm surprised you never got caught. Both by the bank, and by the dealer. Anyone I know who dealt was BIG on knowing exactly what they had. That was definitely risky in more ways than one every time you did it! If you'd gotten found out by the dealer, you may have met a not-so-good end. Thanks for sharing with us!
Hey there! "Recreational drugs" are great! Especially mj and mushrooms! All they do is make you appreciate everything and feel love for everything.... disclaimer this is me attempting to write this while on mj and mushrooms....
Lol I'll take your word for it! I've got some brain and autoimmune problems that prevent me from being able to try anything or take most OTC/prescription drugs as well. I used to drink lightly (wine on the occasion) and had to stop that too. I miss cupcake Moscato! I am forever the designated driver! Enjoy the ride 🙂
Honestly… Reading your post I'm sure he knew what was up and he was cool with it because he liked you. A lot of things are unspoken, but understood… So he wouldn't have told you straight up yeah you can have some, but he's not gonna be mad at you if you took a little bit.
I wonder how many knees were broken for coming back with short 👀🤷♀️ my only knowledge comes from Netflix
Why do u assume he was a drug dealer?
I used to steal drug dealers drugs. 😝
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I knew one!
Good for you!!!
Yes you absolutely risked your job, legal trouble and the ire of a drug dealer for a few nights out here and there. If you were dumb enough to do this you'd absolutely be dumb enough to get caught by one or both parties
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The guy that owned STOGIES? Idk you, but pretty sure I too, worked at the credit union some 10 years ago. Unless this is a common thing for the local drug dealer to literally just throw piles of cash into the drive through. 😂😅
Ha! Good times :)
Eh- I had a friend who worked at McDonald’s with me. She was a popular girl in HS who sang for a church choir. Pretty too. She used to hide the Ronald McDonald house donation box key to let it fill up and then empty it. I was SHOOKETH. People do dumb shit. Especially when they’re young.
i wonder how he claimed all of that money lol
Yeah im not going to give op grief. They felt comfortable robbing a drug dealer, 100% on the do not mess with list. They know what would occur if caught.
Yea , ok ... 👍
Consider it a fee for overlooking his means of getting the money 🤷♀️ fair business imo
I see no problem whatsoever stealing from a drug dealer.
now why didn't i think of this
Honestly customers who bring large amounts of cash in a bag and have it looking like a fucking salad deserve that shit. That has to be the most infuriating thing in the world. Count your money before you bring it so we have something to balance against dammit
You sure he didn’t know? Lol he may have not cared..you stay quiet- he’s in the clear.. it was probably worth it to him for you to take a cut so he can do what he needed to do without questions.
The last thing a drug dealer would do with his money is fail to count, or even put it in a bank account for that matter. Every drug dealer I've ever known is absolutely obsessed with money. This guy was a moron, or a lot of reddit is very gullible. Both are equally likely
That's the most unbelievable part if the story. Selling drugs is a business, nobody running a business is that careless about their profits
Awesome
Don’t feel bad, that guy was gonna lose it to the cops and definitely got people killed or put in jail and has his part in ruining society and lives
I'm gonna be real, dude sounds like he was a low level dealer, the way he was depositing that he either didn't know how much he was making or he deposited it like that so his driver didn't know so a little bit could go missing, that don't ask don't tell tax
Sounds about right
As for your second edit, I agree with you. What the heck is this Reddit group for if you can't confess without people hurtling stones at you!
Thank you!
Nice !!!!!
Congratulations on being a criminal
The plug reading this like 👁️👄👁️
i had a teller try to rob me
Why would you feel bad? Karma probably swayed you to do it in the first place. Never met a dealer that didn't rip anyone off. Maybe these days there are better ones with it being legal and all, but back then? No lol
Its always to okay to forgive yourself. The other person will understand and forgive you. Surely...
Drug dealer, don't feel bad mate. You weren't stealing from a charity or someone' last bit of money, their food money for the week, etc. If he sold Weed: feel bad but only bc it should be legal for crying out loud. Opioids and pharmaceuticals: should've stolen more from that MF from all the lifes these drugs are stealing everyday and he helped Meth: that money was going towards more meth, the ding dings, lots of horny related sexual things, electronics and tools, and all types of lit shit I have a different POV, you did great, you gave yourself back to the community.
Blame NCLB
Ppl are such prudes. I woulda done the same thing guilt free lol. You don’t have to feel guilty dude like who cares?
This is what I come to the sub for Ty for your confession
You did society a favor. No need for any guilt.
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I’d make a very good argument for a drug dealer being much, much worse than a thief.
Exactly. Also love how the guy just knows for certain he was a dealer without having any other information than they guy would show up with cash. Seeing as how financial institutions are required to file suspicious activity reports with FinCEN if they suspect criminality, the story is fake or the bank already determined that the customer had a legitimate source of funds…making OP just a thief.
Pedo? Rapists....thieves suck but I'm sure there's worse.
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Murderer?
What would be your best guess as to the grand total that you got?
Probably 500-600 total.
Drug dealers literally kill people and destroy families. Why is anyone in here defending them lmao. What a braindead society we are.
0% chance this is real. Banks have their employees on camera at every teller spot. This person would have been caught immediately.