You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. You have just received a credit card statement from your bank. The statement lists a number of expensive purchases that you are sure you did not make. Write a letter to the bank manager. In the letter: • Introduce yourself. • Explain that you did not buy the items listed. • Say what you would like the bank to do to fix the problem.

Dear Sir or Madam, My name is Emma Stone and I am writing
this
letter in regard to a letter I have just received from the bank, warning me about some unusual purchases in a baby store named "
Babay
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Baby
Star" that have been made under my account, with a total amount of 2,000$ during the past two weeks. Those purchases, undoubtedly, were not made by me, as I
further
explain. I am a customer of your bank, for the
last
20 years, since I was 25 years old, and opened a bank account under my name in your branch. I've always paid my bills on time, and there
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never any problem with my income during those years. In a rough calculation , I am about to turn 45 next summer, and my kids are all grown up. There is obviously a mistake that
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been made up
,
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since there is no way that I will need to buy baby toys, clothes, or food and
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the fact that I will never spend 2,000$ on
such
items.
Additionally
, two weeks ago I went out on a cruise to
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, and I
have
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just returned yesterday, which
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that I was not able to
preform
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those purchases. I'm attaching to you my cruise tickets as
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proof. I would very much appreciate your
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response to
this
urgent matter, I would like you to open an investigation regarding
this
mishap,
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of course refund me the amount of money since I am in need
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it for my son's wedding which is
due to
next month. I look
further
to hear from you and to
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that everything is taken care of. Yours faithfully, Emma Stone
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  • thirdly
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  • moreover
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  • therefore
  • however
  • although
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  • despite

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