A 71-year-old Black woman claims a bank would not let her deposit money she won at a casino, saying the check was 'fraudulent.'
But when she tried to cash the check two days later, that feeling evaporated. Pugh, who is Black, claims in a lawsuit that employees at a Detroit-area Fifth Third Bank branch told her that the check from the casino was fraudulent, took it from her and would not return it. She eventually got it back that day and deposited it at her usual bank without issues, Pugh said.
The employees were following the bank’s fraud-prevention procedures, Loyd said, as “fraud is consistently one of our customers’ top concerns.” After a short wait, Pugh met with a White bank employee and explained that she wanted to deposit the check from the casino into a new savings account, according to the lawsuit. The employee asked what Pugh did for work, but when the senior citizen said she was retired and won the money at a casino, the employee told Pugh that she believed the check was fraudulent and could not deposit it, according to the lawsuit.
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