Bounced Check
7:05A man pretending to be a church brother calls a woman claiming her $250 love offering check bounced, demanding repayment plus bank fees. She denies it and threatens to call the pastor before the reveal.
Transcript
191 linesHello.
Uh hello.
I'm trying to reach a Monica Sister Monica, please.
Who's calling?
This is uh brother uh brother Deshaun.
I'm calling actually I'm a member um at uh Greater Missionary Baptist Church.
How can I help you?
You we uh that's what I'm calling you actually about the offering now.
Did you you I know you paid your tithes, but you also um Yeah, I pay my tithes every Sunday.
Okay, now you paid a love offering as well, right?
Yes, I do.
Okay.
Now this past Sunday, um I'm looking at a check that you left us with the bank.
Right, right.
I sure did.
I wrote a check Sunday.
Okay, now the check, ma'am, was two hundred and fifty dollars, am I correct?
Right, right.
I wrote two checks for my tithes and the love offering.
Right.
I wrote one for two fifty for the love offering.
Okay, now, ma'am, I don't uh I I know uh first of all, how uh you know I didn't ask you, how's your day going?
You doing all right?
My day is fine.
How about yours?
Oh, I'm um, I'm I'm like I said, I'm blessed.
Now but what is this call regarding?
Why are you calling me?
Well, uh what I wanted to tell you is that I hate to be a bear of bad news, but your your check that you wrote for two fifty actually has bounced.
And wait a minute.
You said my check bounced for two hundred and fifty dollars?
Your check bounced, so what uh what I'm doing is calling you about recouping the two fifty as well as you know, you you cost us thirty dollars uh uh in bank fees.
Wait, wait a minute now.
I wrote two checks.
I wrote a check for a hundred dollars.
Did that one bounce?
I don't see to it that that that one bounced.
Uh all I know is the one that the love offering has bounced.
Well did you put them in at the same time?
Because I wrote them at the same time.
They all go in on Monday, ma'am.
Now I didn't put them in at the same time.
I've been putting them in for the last two, three years.
The problem is, why would people write that?
What is your name?
Um Brother Deshaun.
And you was at it Sunday.
I was d I don't think it matters when I was there, ma'am.
The problem is is that I didn't put these checks in and I don't understand why.
Why y'all write these checks to the church?
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
There's a lot of people write the good.
Well, no.
Well, why do we have one clear while the other one didn't clear?
Maybe you didn't have enough money for both of them to clear.
What the?
What did you just say?
Maybe you didn't have enough money in the bank for both of them to clear.
And I don't understand why people write these checks.
I got plenty of money in the bank.
And all my checks clear.
I don't write no damn rubber checks.
Well, you wrote one on Sunday.
And that's the problem.
How you gonna try to give a look?
Wait a minute.
I think you got me confused with somebody else.
I don't write no bad checks.
You done wrote this.
I'm trying to be nice to you.
I'm trying to be nice to you.
When can we expect the $250 plus the $30?
Wait, $30?
That's the bank fees, ma'am, for the doggone check bouncing.
My check didn't bounce.
I'm gonna check my bank.
And if my check clear, you're gonna pay me $30 for calling me, harassing me about a $250 check bounce.
I don't write no damn money.
Why would you write checks?
Well, you you want to sit up in the church and write these big number checks when you know you ain't got it in the bank.
What the f did you say?
I said, why would you write these checks when the money ain't in there?
Let me tell you, one thing.
I don't write no bad checks, and you got a lot of nurses calling me telling me my check bounced.
Your check is the one that has bounced.
I'm gonna tell you what you do.
Since my check bounced, you pay the since you got all the money.
And don't call me with this again.
Call her bad cat.
Call her back.
Hello?
Don't you hang up on me no more.
When are we gonna get this 250 and this $30?
Who is that she's calling you?
Somebody from the church tell me I wrote a bad check.
I don't write no bad.
You did write a bad check!
I didn't write no bad check.
Yes, you did!
Why are you calling me?
Why the treasure don't call me at church?
The treasure is business.
I ain't never known the deacon called nobody by no bad check.
Your is full of
got the damn money.
Thank you.
You got the damn money.
I ain't got who in the hell is that in the background?
Who is that?
Never mind who it is.
We both go to the same church and you're gonna call me to my I wrote a bad check.
You don't you call me no more?
And if the check bad, you pay it, okay?
Do Pastor know you talking like this?
Do Pastor know you calling me?
Can you answer that?
I look, when are we gonna get this 250 put this 280 dollars is what we looking for from you?
I wrote a check for 250.
And the thing not get 280.
You put the $30 with it.
You put $250 in there, it bounced.
$30 cost us on bank fees.
That's $280.
When can the church expect they money?
Never.
Not no two eighty.
You will never get to eighty.
You gonna make me come by your and my check then bo what did you say?
I'm gonna do what?
You're gonna make me come by your house and get this money.
Bring your on.
Bring it.
Bring your on.
What is the address on this check?
I got it off the check.
I bet you you'll be limping back.
I'm and I'm watching you.
You better not be spending no money nowhere.
You better not spend nothing till I get this 250 plus 30.
Whatever I want to, okay?
No, you don't you know what?
I am, and you don't call me no more with this because my check did not bounce.
I don't see how one check went through and the other bounced.
Let me say this to you.
We cannot accept you back into the house of the Lord no more until
you are not don't you come in there Sunday until we get coming up in there Sunday?
And uh I'm gonna make sure I find your cause you the person I wanna see.
You gonna And you know what?
I'm gonna call the pastor right now and ask him because I don't believe my check bounced.
You full of What let me say this before you call Pastor.
I got no no, I'm gonna call Pastor.
No, you should have talked with Pastor before you call me with this information.
I got one more thing I need to say to you.
You ain't got nothing to say to me.
You done upset me with this talking about I bounced a check.
You should have went to Pastor before you call me with this.
I told Pastor when I get, but I got one more thing to say before I leave.
Is you listening?
What what do you got to say to me?
What do you have to say now?
That you're gonna pay the check?
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Wait, what did you say?
Baby, this is what you say.
What did you say?
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Your girlfriend
has pranked you.
I'm a beat that
just left here flying out the door in a hurt.
No, she didn't.
I'm a that.
I can't.
Oh Lord, baby.
Are you serious?
I'm serious, baby.
I'm serious.
Your check has not bounced.
Go on in the church Sunday and let's go.
Wait a minute.
Let's we're gonna we got a lot to pray for.
You done called me and I've been oh my God.
I've been cursing.
Oh my God.
Y'all need to stop this.
Y'all get people upset.
Let me ask you one more thing though, baby.
What is the baddest radio show in the land?
The Steve Harvey morning show.
Y'all need to stop this.