FDIC: FIL-41-96: Inactive Financial Institution Letters: Special Alert/ Suspicious Activity


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Inactive Financial Institution Letters

Special Alert

FIL-41-96
June 28, 1996

TO:	CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
SUBJECT:	Suspicious Activity

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has alerted us that some banks have received instruments entitled "Certified Money Drafts." These instruments should be viewed with extreme caution.

The instruments indicate that they are:

REDEEMABLE AT FULL FACE VALUE WHEN PRESENTED TO
Kenneth Cruickshank
3601 Tallwood Ct.
Marietta, Georgia 30062

A copy of such an instrument is attached. These instruments are deemed to be without financial value.

Please forward any information concerning this activity to the FDIC's Special Activities Section, 550 17th Street, N. W., Room F-612, Washington, D.C. 20429.

	Nicholas J. Ketcha Jr.
	Director

Attachment: [available in fax or photocopy only; no electronic file available]

Distribution: FDIC-Supervised Banks (Commercial and Savings)

Last Updated 07/13/1999

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