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GG, I am also a poor college student. I didn't spend the money when a mysterious $1000 showed up in my 5/3 bank account through a series of check deposits through a Northern Ohio 5/3 branch I had never been to. Actually, I pointed out the error to a representative of my bank and they tried investigating to no avail, but told me to leave the funds in there so that when the mistake was righted my account wouldn't be overdrawn. Six months or so later, a girl with the same name as me in a town a few hundred miles away realized that her deposits were going to the wrong account; apparently she had given her name to the teller for a deposit since she didn't have her account number and the teller didn't bother to check her address or SS# or anything, and deposited it to the wrong account. She kept that deposit ticket for the account number and continued making deposits to my account for a few months before realizing the mistake.
If you knew that the money was not yours, you should have asked or left it where it was. If your dad won't help you pay it back (and he gave you pretty bad advice on this, I agree), you'll have to find some way to do it yourself. By fighting this mistake, you may find yourself charged with larceny.
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