I had rented a holiday home in XXXX, FL and transferred 50 % of the rental fee to the owner. As I did not want to transfer the money to XXXX XXXX, I asked for a bank account. I received a Wells Fargo account. After 2 months I received an email telling me I need to pay the final amount to keep the booking. This was unusual. I started some investigations and found out it was a complete fraud. The person was no real estate agent, the holiday apartment had been rented for a year, the phone no. was out of order and the management at the building in XXXX never heard of him nor the owner. 
I found out where the account was located and filed a XXXX XXXX XXXX with the XXXX, NM police department. An officer informed me after weeks that Wells Fargo told her this " Wells Fargo has told me that the funds went into a XXXX XXXX XXXX account before they could inquire about it. Unfortunately, they have said they will not reimburse those funds to you because of this. " The XXXX police detectives told me that these people open bank accounts with false SSN 's and false driver 's licenses. The XXXX police department has XXXX XXXX of these cases per day. In this case the bank did not operate appropriately and check the legitimation of the person and therefore is liable for the loss. 
