I was selling a truck on XXXX. A buyer emailed me to say he wanted the truck. I was selling the truck for {$1800.00}. He said he was going to send me a cashier 's check for {$3300.00} because he was in another state and he wanted me to send money to his car mover who would come with a trailer and pick up the truck. I took the cashiers check to my bank, Wells Fargo. I told the teller I was suspicious of the check and that I would like a manager to look at it and tell me whether it was legitimate. XXXX XXXX XXXX, the service manager of the branch, came out and looked at the check and said, " It looks good to me, I do n't see any telltale signs of it being fraudulent. '' She also said, " once the money posts to your account, the money is yours and you can spend it. '' She told me I could also send it off to someone to check it for validity, but I told her that if she said it was good I trusted her. She said it was. I deposited the check that day. XXXX XXXX then told me that, since this was a Friday, if the money posted to my account on Monday then go ahead and spend it. I waited the weekend and the money posted to my account. I sent {$1400.00} of the money to the address the buyer provided in New York.I first used my portion to buy food. I then began paying off debts. I bought some clothes, and put some gas in my car. The next day the buyer emailed me again saying that his uncle was sick and that he needed the rest of the money back and that I could keep the truck. At that point it seemed to me that it had to be a scam and I immediately called the bank. The bank told me that they had decided it was fraudulent and they had taken all of the money in my account to begin to pay off the fraudulent check. There was approximately {$700.00} of the truck money remaining in the account. They took that. On XXXX XXXX, 2016, my Social Security payment was direct deposited into the account and they took it. I went to Legal Aid and they called the bank. XXXX XXXX admitted to my attorney that she had told me all that I stated above. She did this both on the phone and in emails. She lied and said that she asked me whether I was supposed to send money somewhere. She never asked me that. I would never have used that check without XXXX XXXX 's approval. But for her telling me to go ahead this mess would never have happened. My attorney called the bank because they are still pursuing me for the rest of the money. I told the bank that I thought the right thing for them to do was to write off the loss and let me close the account. They have refused to do so. Wells Fargo preyed on me and now they are continuing to do so. This is not right. 
