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.
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 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.
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)
Like the actual taliban would label their payments this way.
Your right perhaps they’d use “Completely legitimate non-taliban misc expenses”
UK even making you pay for a jihad license now.
TV license, Jihad license, whats next? Terrorist bomb threat license?
I used to write a check to my room mate and then she would write the rent check to the landlord. My checks to her always said “For: Sexual favors and drugs ;)” No one contacted us.
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.
I marked my rent payments to my roommate with “Cocaine and Hookers”, went on for years but his bank complained one day too.
Funny to imagine if the banks managers were actually using our money for exactly that, but marked as company expenses instead.
I’ve heard people doing this and then getting black listed from the entire banking system. Can’t open bank accounts, access any credit, and the banks don’t have to tell you why you’re blacklisted. It’s supposed to be very very difficult to undo.
You havent truly lived unless you’ve been personally sanctioned by the international banking cartel.
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”
