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Santander trying to steal £14,200 from me

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  • meer53
    meer53 Posts: 10,217 Forumite
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    The OP says Santander have allowed them access to some of the money in their account. If there was a suspicion of Money Laundering, they wouldn't have allowed this. All funds would have been frozen.
  • nelly12
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    meer53 wrote: »
    The OP says Santander have allowed them access to some of the money in their account. If there was a suspicion of Money Laundering, they wouldn't have allowed this. All funds would have been frozen.

    which is exactly what i said earlier, definitely don't think the OP got any money on Saturday!
  • Azelphur
    Azelphur Posts: 78 Forumite
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    nelly12 wrote: »
    which is exactly what i said earlier, definitely don't think the OP got any money on Saturday!

    Are you saying I'm a liar?

    One of my friends raised a very good point about the ML thing, and that is due to it being illegal to tip off a ML suspect, they wouldn't have even frozen my account, it'd just be a nice quiet investigation followed by the cops turning up on my door. Freezing my account is itself a tip off.
  • The_pc_tech
    The_pc_tech Posts: 422 Forumite
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    You don't seem to like anything that anyone is telling you so why keep coming back for more?
    Interests: PCs. servers, networks, mobiles and music (esp. trance)
  • Azelphur
    Azelphur Posts: 78 Forumite
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    edited 8 May 2013 at 9:39PM
    The_pc_tech wrote: »
    You don't seem to like anything that anyone is telling you so why keep coming back for more?

    Sure I do, there's been loads of brilliant advice on this thread, the posts by dalesrider, grumbler, meer53, and more for example have certainly been very helpful. Makes me think I should go through and thank all the useful posts :)
  • grumbler
    grumbler Posts: 58,629 Forumite
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    edited 8 May 2013 at 10:06PM
    nelly12 wrote: »
    ...The bit that i fail to believe is that there was any money released to him/her on Saturday....
    nelly12 wrote: »
    ... definitely don't think the OP got any money on Saturday!
    Another similar thread: HELP!!!! Bank Account Frozen / No-ops
    benog1985 wrote: »
    ...
    He has just called me back and said that I can go to the branch and have £200 of my money....
    Typically, the reason of freezing the account was a top secret, that makes ML the most likely reason:
    meer53 wrote: »
    ...the only circumstance where they aren't allowed to mention why an account has been stopped is for suspicion of Money Laundering.
    Ordinary people call this "secret of Polichinelle", but this concept seems to be unknown to the authors or AML regulations.
  • JuicyJesus
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    edited 9 May 2013 at 5:29PM
    Azelphur wrote: »
    Are you saying I'm a liar?

    One of my friends raised a very good point about the ML thing, and that is due to it being illegal to tip off a ML suspect, they wouldn't have even frozen my account, it'd just be a nice quiet investigation followed by the cops turning up on my door. Freezing my account is itself a tip off.

    Or it could not be money laundering, it could just be your account being used to receive the proceeds of fraud, an issue surrounding which there is no tipping off legislation.
    urs sinserly,
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  • Azelphur
    Azelphur Posts: 78 Forumite
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    More delaying tactics today as per usual, they say that the fraud team havn't replied, even though I was promised a call back within 48 hours. I spoke to a manager again today and they say that I should call back tomorrow morning and they will talk to the relevant department, I also took her name down and she said I can talk to her about it so that I don't keep getting sent to different people who say the previous I spoke to was wrong.

    More news tomorrow I suppose.
  • [Deleted User]
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    This whole Bitcoin thing sounds dodgy as hell to me. There are only three possible outcomes:

    1) Value of Bitcoins goes down - someone loses money.

    2) Value of Bitcoins stays the same - nobody makes any money.

    3) Value of Bitcoins goes up - someone loses money.

    Kinda like a Ponzi scheme, but not. Or something. But still dodgy.
  • jonesMUFCforever
    jonesMUFCforever Posts: 28,898 Forumite
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    edited 9 May 2013 at 11:38PM
    billbennett wrote: »
    This whole Bitcoin thing sounds dodgy as hell to me. There are only three possible outcomes:

    1) Value of Bitcoins goes down - someone loses money.

    2) Value of Bitcoins stays the same - nobody makes any money.

    3) Value of Bitcoins goes up - someone loses money.

    Kinda like a Ponzi scheme, but not. Or something. But still dodgy.
    I did not want to inflame the OP here but this has been my thinking from the beginning.
    This Bitcoin thing is very like the King without any clothes don't you think?
    Some fools and their money are very easily parted.
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