When Cuban called the banker about the obviously tampered checks, the response was essentially 'we're a bank, of course we cashed them.' A small business was nearly wiped out because an institution with every tool to detect fraud processed it without blinking — and bore zero consequences. The episode is a quiet indictment of how asymmetric bank fraud risk falls entirely on the depositor.
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