Mary Venegas, a 66-year-old woman from Sacramento, Calif., left an envelope containing $6,000 in cash in her yard four years ago and never found it until recently. She got a United States bank and wanted to deposit, but was refused. Fortunately, with the help of the media, the bank was willing to accept some of the banknotes, which made Mary breathe a sigh of relief.
Foreign media reported that in 2020, Mary left an envelope containing $6,000 in the utility room in the courtyard and never found it again. She was going to deposit the money in the bank to pay her taxes that day, but she said she didn't know how she could have lost it, "I'm just an old man with a bad memory." ”
Mary had recently finally found the envelope, which had fallen to the ground and was covered by a cardboard box, and the money was still inside. She took the money to a United States bank to deposit into her account, but was refused, and the bank said that the banknotes were dirty and damaged, and that several of them had broken corners.
The bank returned all the money to Mary, but she was not financially well off and needed the money because her winter electricity bill had not been paid. Mary said she was "very surprised" because she had been a loyal customer of Bank of United States and did not expect them to refuse to accept her banknotes.
The report pointed out that the Ministry of Finance can also collect damaged banknotes, but the process can take as long as six months to three years. Mary said that if it had taken that long, "I might have passed away before I could get the money."
Mary called CBS13's consumer research team and the route's reporter Kurtis Ming for help, and the team believed that more than half of Mary's banknotes were still intact and the denomination values on each note were clear, so they contacted United States Bank to ask them to re-evaluate.
After evaluation, Bank of United States was willing to charge $5,700 of it, which made Mary very happy, praising the team as angels, relieving her a lot of pressure and worry. She said she finally had the money to pay her bills, "I don't like to owe people and I don't like to pay my bills."
Curtis is a consumer investigative reporter for CBS13 and an 11-time Emmy Award-winner.
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