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[–] 16 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

This is actually a really common thing for banks to do for fraud security. It works better than just freezing the account because if someone is using a stolen identity they can still go in person and fake their way around a frozen account. But if the security team deducts $100 billion dollars, then you can't take anything out and it essentially warns anyone who works in banking who isn't directly in your bank (3rd party bank) about what is happening to the account.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago*

    If you can talk your way out of it in person the account isn't frozen, at most it is flagged as potential fraud. Most bank fraud departments have first line fraud detection analysts in a call center where if the system detects fraud that department are the only ones who can remove the account freeze and if they get even a whiff of suspicion from a "customer" calling in to get the freeze removed it gets pushed up the line to specialists whose whole job is to do deep investigations into accounts to catch potential fraudsters. The first line might have you get in person to a branch for ID verification but the fraud department are usually still the ones who have to manually remove the freeze once it hits the work queue.

    Putting an account negative like that on purpose is an easy ticket to the bank being audited. Hell doing it on accident would probably get the bank audited.

    Source: worked as a fraud detection analyst for a major bank

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  • [+] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)