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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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31 January 10

I need help
I have a gun
give me this amount $5000.00.
I’m kidnapped.
Do not call the police

female, 35, PNC Bank, Clifton NJ, $760

** Note translated from Spanish.  Arrested two weeks later during an attempt to rob a different PNC Bank branch located in Clifton

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5 December 09

Give me money for help.

male, 40s, US Bank, Renton WA, 1p

** verbally added “Don’t push a button and don’t give me fake money.”

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12 November 09

Please help this lady,
she is strapped.

female, 60s, Bank of America, Chino CA “the Grandma Bandit”

** bandit lifted shirt to show metal object with wires attached

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