+ayrbrain Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 we were out hopefully placing a new geocache hide today and as I have already got a cache hidden in this park we thought we would go along and check it as we were walking back to the car. I opened up the container and lo and behold someone had left a bank card! what!!!!!! :o no signature on it, still well in date all their account numbers, name etc on the card. We couldn't believe this! We brought it home and will hand it into the bank on Monday when they open. Now anyone could have taken this, okay no PIN number is known but it still could be used online. Totally shocked to see this in a cache! Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 My other 2/3rds saw (more than once), folks leaving torn checks to replace a damp log. Whatever info visable on the front. It's funny and sad that common sense isn't anymore. Quote Link to comment
+coachstahly Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 When out looking for a cache I found discarded contents of a wallet including an insurance card and some other less important cards. I contacted the person on the card and found out that their purse had been stolen a couple years earlier and that I must have found the dumping point. I gave her the specific location as well as my number in case the police needed to contact me but they never did. Quote Link to comment
+ayrbrain Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 We honestly couldn't believe this cash card was in the container, maybe they were taking cache containers literally! . I was going through the treasure rubbish that was left in the container and hubby spotted the card! I agree with you, common sense isn't anymore. I kept saying I couldn't believe someone would leave their cash card!! Quote Link to comment
+Gitchee-Gummee Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 I couldn't believe someone would leave their cash card!! Perhaps... just maybe... quite possibly, the card was left by somebody other than the rightful owner. Ever think of that? Quote Link to comment
+ayrbrain Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 Even if that did happen it is still a silly thing to leave in there. No one else has signed the log since the card was left. The cache container has been checked by us a few times in the past 2 weeks. Quote Link to comment
+NanCycle Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 I couldn't believe someone would leave their cash card!! Perhaps... just maybe... quite possibly, the card was left by somebody other than the rightful owner. Ever think of that? I was thinking maybe someone lost the card and the person who found it put it in the cache. Quote Link to comment
+ayrbrain Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 I couldn't believe someone would leave their cash card!! Perhaps... just maybe... quite possibly, the card was left by somebody other than the rightful owner. Ever think of that? I was thinking maybe someone lost the card and the person who found it put it in the cache. No. Someone left it as a swap! It is going to the bank tomorrow. Quote Link to comment
+Ben0w Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Someone left it as a swap! Just wondering: did you trade even or up? Quote Link to comment
+TriciaG Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 No. Someone left it as a swap! It is going to the bank tomorrow. I'm trying to figure out how you know they left it as a swap. Did they post "Took X, left bank card" in their log? I wonder if it's for a closed account. It's stupid, but it would be a fun toy for kids. Quote Link to comment
+ayrbrain Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 It wasn't there the other day when we looked. So assumed they took something and left the card in it's place. Yes it is stupid leaving it. Quote Link to comment
+NanCycle Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 It wasn't there the other day when we looked. So assumed they took something and left the card in it's place. Yes it is stupid leaving it. And you know that the card belonged to the people who left it, how? Are they someone you know? Are they using their own actual name as their caching name? Quote Link to comment
+ayrbrain Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 It's the fact someone left a bank card in the cache! that is what I am trying to make a point of. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Unless its a stolen card that somebody dropped there as a joke, it is almost certainly from a closed bank account. I guess we'll all know tomorrow, though. Quote Link to comment
+terrkan78 Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 It's weird no matter how you slice it, but it seems to me that it's apt to be a stolen card. Maybe they (perhaps a muggle) had an attack of conscience and this is one way to get the card to someone who'll do the right thing? Weird, but possible. Maybe it fell out of a geocacher's pocket? Extra weird (and I doubt it). Maybe a geocacher had an attack of the d'ohs and traded it for the nifty tie dye bracelet that was in the cache? That's just too weird to believe. The sad thing is the bank isn't going to tell you if it's a stolen card. They'll just take it and say thank you. And we'll be left pondering. Although...I like to ponder. An elaborate drug drop? Someone who knows how much geocachers like seemingly unsolvable puzzles? Aliens? Quote Link to comment
+Colonial Cats Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 When you take it to the bank, how much money do you think you will get? Quote Link to comment
+ayrbrain Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Rofl @ Terrkan78 and Colonian Cats. ? I will just hand into the bank, and I know I will not be told anything about the card, I'm not intersted, I just want to get it into the bank. But it will fun telling the cashier how I came about it! "Now madam let me explain geocaching to you"................. Will their eyes glaze over or they may become a new recruit? ? Quote Link to comment
+ayrbrain Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Update on card. It has now been handed into the bank. The teller thanked me and said she would cancel it. So the overhead helicopters with search lights over our house and the fraud squad all called off . ?? Quote Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 I couldn't believe someone would leave their cash card!! Perhaps... just maybe... quite possibly, the card was left by somebody other than the rightful owner. Ever think of that? Or maybe the account is closed and the card is nothing more than a piece of plastic. Crazy swag for an adult, but an 8 year old finder might enjoy finding it and bragging to his friends that he or she has a cash card. Quote Link to comment
+jellis Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Maybe someone found it and put there for safe keeping. Quote Link to comment
+narcissa Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Maybe someone found it and put there for safe keeping. This is what I was thinking - another cacher might have found it on the ground nearby and figured the cache was a safe place to put it. Quote Link to comment
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