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Robbing a bank is as simple as putting pen to paper. Here are actual demand notes used in successful and unsuccessful unarmed bank robberies - - accompanied by a photo of each robber and appended with details about the robbery itself.

= a successful robbery

= an unsuccessful robbery


Compiled by Ken Habarta

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9 March 12

This is a Robbery
Don’t Use Dye Packs
Don’t Use GPS

male, 42, Bank of America, Midland TX, 3:55p

* authorities matched surveillance to suspect’s facebook page

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8 November 11

Give me 400 $100 bills.
Just do what this says.
Don’t push the alarm.

male, 19, KeyBank, Issaquah WA, $4000

** ID’d by surveillance photos; caught at local hotel

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25 July 11

I have a gun and I’m not afraid
to use it.

male, 40s, Fifth Third Bank, West Bloomfield MI, $700

** suspect fled in car with pink towel over his license plate

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24 September 10

Give me all the money. Stacks of $100s 50s 20s.
You have 20 seconds before I activate the bomb.

male, 30s, Comercia Bank, Redford IL, 11am

** suspect had cab waiting for him outside

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20 April 10

$100, $50, $20 bills
NOW

male, 30s, Abington Bank, Abington MA,  3:01p

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