Santander trying to steal £14,200 from me

AkaShika

I don't think anyone will ever see BC as a legitimate form of currency due to all the negative connotations associated with it (i.e., using it to procure illegal services).

meer53

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.

The first thing to happen in a ML investigation is freezing of accounts. Followed by a big fat investigation which you will know nothing about. Your "friend" is talking rubbish, i wouldn't listen to them if i were you.

DCFC79

Another interesting thread with an outrageous title.

Azelphur

meer53 wrote: »

The first thing to happen in a ML investigation is freezing of accounts. Followed by a big fat investigation which you will know nothing about. Your "friend" is talking rubbish, i wouldn't listen to them if i were you.

Haha, hopefully not the case with me *crosses fingers*

I'd love to discuss bitcoin but it's not really the place here, I'd be happy to talk to people about it elsewhere though (You can catch me on the bitcoin-otc IRC channel if you like)

Azelphur

Phoned up again this morning, they told me they'd never received the fax *sigh*, pointed out that I handed it in personally in branch and that I'd been told over the phone by a previous advisor that they were reading it and had it in hand. He went away and looked for it and ended up finding it. Still no luck as of yet. I'm gonna phone that manager up again at 3:30 and see if I can arrange to withdraw the uncontested funds.

Azelphur

Phoned up again and spoke to the same manager I spoke to yesterday, she says I can go in branch and withdraw £500, certainly not the uncontested funds as she said yesterday, but anything is better than nothing. Going in branch now to collect it.

She tells me that the investigation department will have finished investigating by first thing Tuesday morning, of course their track record for etas isn't good, but we'll see.

Azelphur

Got my £500 without too many hitches. Next update will be Tuesday I imagine.

jonesMUFCforever

Shall we open a book here?
My bet - odds on your account will be closed within 30 days.

Anybody else want to take the bet on?

onzey

Is the bet currency bitcoins?

callum9999

While I fully agree with the general sentiment on this thread that trading bitcoins is extremely dodgy and very risky, the nitpicking of the OP is absolutely ridiculous... Why on Earth are so many of you being so arrogant - it's almost as if you are personally offended by them?

When Santander keep giving dates for this to be resolved by and they pass, that IS Santander messing up. Not the entire company, but people acting on behalf of Santander have messed up. It's entirely reasonable for a customer to expect it to be completed by the date they are told by the bank. The timeframes quoted may be unrealistically short for the "experts" on here, but the OP is clearly not an expert in money laundering procedures so how are they meant to know? Again, the amount of time it takes them to look at the evidence may be reasonable from a banking perspective, but it is NOT reasonable from the perspective of someone who has had all their money frozen - particularly in combination with the lies about when they can regain access.

Not to mention all the rubbish deriding them for not having a business account (which they clearly said they were sorting out post after post), not registering for tax or for regulation (which they clearly said they were trying to do post after post) and for not involving their lawyer (which yet again, they already said they had) - which was then quickly followed by deriding them because they got their lawyer involved. Yes the OP has clearly gone in over their head and yes, statements like "Santander are stealing my money" are moronic, but these attacks look pretty pathetic...