Re: Paying into a.n.other’s bank account
Originally Posted by
Zuleika
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So Baz
..... following on from that advice I deposited cash in person with a teller at my bank .
Then went online to make the transfer. All went well until the final page when I was asked to ring the number given because this was going to a new recipient.
Then because it was the fraud dept. I was asked all manner of questions!!! Did I know the person, why was I making a large transfer being just two of them.
It ended where the agent said she was not going to allow the transaction because she suspected it could be going to a person pretending to be whoever because the sort code of that particular bank wasn't where I said it ought to be in the country. Have you ever heard such a tale?
So furious at this I looked the sort code up myself following your link and guess what?
I was correct, she was wrong because she was looking at where the XX bank's
HQ were, which was way down the UK in Kent, not where that sort code's
branch was situated.
Several hours later and with another agent apologising for someone else's mistake after I rang to complain
the transaction went through successfully.
But why with the sort code in front of her did X make that mistake sending me into a tizwaz?
Good that you have successfully completed what you wanted to do and paid the money to the other person's account.
Perhaps the person you were dealing with just didn't know her job? All we can hope is that she receives further training.
The problem is that the few 'no-goods' are spoiling it for the majority, that is happening with a lot of things. There are certainly a lot of 'no-goods' when it comes to money laundering and accessing the bank accounts of others to take what is not theirs. I guess the banks can only try and stop this by whatever means necessary but it often means as customers we are being more inconvenienced than the 'no-goods'!