No one knew for sure, but the customer thought he had some protection in the little yellow deposit receipt, which had been stamped by the teller and which he had stuffed into his wallet.
One was a deposit receipt to a numbered bank account in Switzerland.
Although the point was left unclear, the three apparently received loans that might have been obtained improperly, perhaps involving the forged deposit receipts as collateral.
Deposit growth slowed in April, compared with the $4.3 billion jump in March, but a bank board economist, James Barth, said deposit receipts normally decline in April as people pay their income taxes.
He liked to walk away with the stamped deposit receipt in his pocket, and the first thing he did when he got home was put the receipt in a file.
The original deposit receipt for any balance of tax due that you paid in nonconvertible foreign currency.
Something mealy and ugly might have oozed out of her, except for the fact that the twenty-five-thousand-dollar deposit receipt made a highly effective Band-Aid.
It reportedly lent about $75 million, accepting forged deposit receipts from Nui Onoue, 61 years old, the restaurant operator, as collateral.
The goldsmiths eventually discovered that the deposit receipts they provided were passing from person to person in lieu of payment in coin.
When Fuji Bank admitted recently that an executive had forged nearly $2 billion worth of deposit receipts in a loan scheme, some shrugged it off as part of a dash for growth.