Damn. Yes. Very very clear scammer language.
I am interested, for the purposes of research, to learn a liitle more about the circumstances and factors that led you to accept this was even remotely genuine.
I do not mean to mock or scorn you for believing a scam. I want to understand more about what happened.
Went to my bank. They gave me a new account and routing number. They said I’m safe now.
You might want to consider not allowing Planet Fitness to take money out of your account, given their scammy reputation.
They did but they wanted to pin the blame on ME. Implying that I must have lost a check or it’s one of my employees or vendors. I ended up moving my money to another bank and closing down that account. Until the end of time, I’ll bad mouth that bank (actually, credit union) anytime the subject comes up.
My local PD kinda blew it off as well, luckily, the PD in the next city over arrested someone and found pictures of some of the phony checks on his phone.
I also got a call from a sheriff’s office in Texas (I’m in Wisconsin). A janitor at a college found a printed out copy of one of the checks that cleared our account in a dorm garbage and turned it over to them.
From what I read, they were taking out the usual 10 a month and 40 yearly. I have no plans to quit planet fitness.