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grebc • today at 2:48 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

You’re making life miserable with such ideas.

I bought a house earlier this year and the bank froze my deposit I sent to the real estate agent.

I rang the bank straight away and badgered them to unlock it ASAP in case the sale fell through for their BS fraud department to sift it.

They blamed the fact the real estate they’d never transacted with before, I politely told them they’re based in one state while I was purchasing in another.

It took 2 hours of back and forth to get them to send it, even after they did all their security questions.

It’s all a fugazi, they/governments do not want you having large amounts of money - it’s as simple as that.


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somerandom2407 • today at 3:02 AM

Actually it's kind of the opposite. Right now the banks know how easy it is for someone to end up getting scammed, so they try to be really strict on picking up on potentially fraudulent transactions precisely because they can't trust endpoint security.

If they have something like this in place, they will have greater confidence in the transaction being genuine and less likely to block it. In this case, for such a large amount of money, relative to the size of your account, they might still be very cautious about it, but it would be less likely to cause an issue.

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