In a message dated 10/24/2006 12:52:56 PM Central Daylight Time, jreck@ecenet.com writes: I saw more Identity theft from bank employees than common strangers This happened to me in the 60s. Someone had checks with the same name and a number one off from mine and then wrote checks that got bounced off my account. Since I had a somewhat unusual name because of the order and combination of my given names and a somewhat unusual Czech surname as soon as I found out what was going on I was looking at bank employee as far as I was concerned and just closed my account and opened one at the credit union for the company I worked for. Had no further problems. Annie in Minnesota