Fraud
Okay, the FBI, CIA and Pentagon can call your bank and get the bank's records about you if the bank wants to cooperate. Of course, so can a local used car lot. Come to think of it, so can all the employees of the bank, the Federal Reserve, the IRS, and probably the Colorado Department of Revenue Collections department. I wonder what Drug Enforcement Administration agents can get without a warrant?
And anyone who is smart enough to lie over the phone can probably get a fair amount of information.
Checks and credit card transactions are public information. That is why the government makes it illegal to use cash for any transaction over $10,000 without filling out a form and sending it to the Treasury Department. These are old laws.
Yaakov Watkins
Denver
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