Alex this unfortunately is what you will face if you attempt to sue, the banks know where all the loopholes in the laws governing them are, and you will have to prove very strongly failure of due dilligence and the fact that they had special knowledge of the fact that these scams are being perpetrated through alerts from your attorney generals office in your own state, as well as alerts put out by the fbi and SS. Then it becomes a real battle to say the least , they will attempt to weasle out around every corner and unless you have a kick butt attorney to counteract the stupidity they will spew good luck.
I would start be gathering alerts that were put out just before or during the time that your incident happened, you can do this on
http://www.fbi.gov,
http://www.sss.gov and your state attorney general's site. Then you can go to bankersonline.com and check to see if the particular bank that you deal with has a past history of counterfeit items being presented.
You can try to get as much information as possible from
http://www.fraudaid.com as well concerning these crimes and how they are perpetrated.
Once you have a narative of what happened in easy to read format and these other items of proof go see an attorney and show him/her what you have , ask if there is a prayer of getting anything accomplished by suing the bank.
BTW What bank are we talking about here?
You may want to talk to the attorney also about the fact that when this happened you were a minor see if that helps any.