The most unrealistic thing about this post is the bank not immediately blocking this user and dropping them from all banking services. Taking the time to investigate and not dropping the customer… Incredible
I bet they’re white and live in a good zip code
There’s no checkbox in a bank database for race. And there’s no special rules for certain zip codes.
Banks judge you on two things:
- How much money you have
- How quickly your money moves (slower is better for them)
I think the bank is smart enough to understand they were probably drunk and joking, if they were actually performing terrorist acts with the funds then they wouldn’t label them so plainly. Closing someone’s bank can cause a lot of issues in their life so it is more fair to warn them first.
I agree that is the reality we should live in, I’m not so sure that’s the reality we do live in as experienced by most banking customers.
UK even making you pay for a jihad license now.
TV license, Jihad license, whats next? Terrorist bomb threat license?
Can you imagine how offended you’d be if these were serious payments and the bank suggested you were joking? I have a mental image of a jihadist having an meltdown because their bank didn’t take them seriously.
Almost seems like a bad idea to allow private companies to decide arbitrary criteria which they could block you from using the financial system (which is required to survive in a capitalist economy).
In the US, there’s federal laws that ban using the banking system to fund terrorism. The bank would be legally compelled to investigate. This looks like it’s likely in the UK, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they have similar laws.
the so called freedom fighters on the right when i make a $500 wire transfer with the description “supplies for firebombing majorie taylor greene’s home on october 29th, 2027”
