UK Politics @feddit.uk RobotToaster @mander.xyz 3 mo. ago

‘Kafkaesque’: bank blocks cash transfer, saying it could be an AI scam

www.theguardian.com ‘Kafkaesque’: bank blocks cash transfer, saying it could be an AI scam

Starling’s fraud team repeatedly refused to allow UK man to send £12,800 to friend in Austria, then froze account

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Add the fact. It took the guardian contacting them for them to recognise the fault.

If this customer was not a high up academic, the guardian would not have shown interest.

Yet the bank froze his account preventing him from withdrawing his own money. With no police or court involvement.

Why the hell is that not pulling up a more serious investigation from the FCA.
Putting your money in a bank is just a conditional IOU from the bank to you. In other words, it's no longer your money and they don't have to give it back to you if they don't want to. Monero solves this.
- False, and I'll assume you are American.
  
  In the UK, you are protected up to £85k per bank.
  
  https://www.fscs.org.uk/what-we-cover/
  
  Government regulation can protect people. I know that concept seems crazy in USA.
  
  £85k per bank
  
  Worth noting though. That over the last 20 years or so. So many banks have merged in all but name.
  
  Per bank only applies to the owning company registered with the FDA.
  
  So dividing wealth over 85k into multiple banks is getting more and more impossible. Not to mention, the same merging of banks puts the whole nation fiscal security at risk in the event of a collapse.
  
  We supposedly have $250k, but the FDIC has 1% of the money they say they cover. A very few big banks or many small banks fail and the FDIC is broke and the money would have to be printed by the fed and cause hyperinflation. I bet your regulator has only a small percent too.
- So how do you get your physical cash into a digital crypto currency without having a bank account to turn your cash into digital cash or a place to hold your crypto currency as cash when you need to buy groceries or something?
  
  Cash by mail for getting in w/o a bank and giftcard services for groceries. I try when possible to seek out people who will take Monero on https://xmrbazaar.com and prioritize buying from them before resorting to a giftcard. My options for direct purchases are expanding slowly but surely. Having less than 1% inflation and falling helps too.
  
  Edit: Monero will never have over 1% inflation again

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