NatWest £125 switch incentive

telemarks

Missus_Hyde wrote: »

I must agree; I withdrew the £1500 over the period of a few days in smallish chunks of £400 and £300, so as not to spook the “fraud team” and it seems to have worked okay.

Thanks for the info. Did you withdraw to the same account each time? or spread across a few accounts?

Just trying to avoid having to get friendly with NatWest fraud team :rotfl:

Gazza9999

I transferred £1500 out without any probs. No fraud team involvement.

originator

So did I,theres exactly 28 pence left in the account too.That will stay like that until the incentive is paid in April.

Badger50

Like many others I found the application process quite complicated and protracted. (In fact it still isn't quite complete since I am am still waiting for my activation code). On the other hand, when MrsBadger50 applied for an account a few days after me her application just sailed through and was instantly accepted online.

originator

the digi docs thing threw me in the beginning,but i was able to rope in a random child who did all that bit for me(I struggle with copy and paste so there there was no hope of me doing it alone),after that it was painless....

Katiehound

telemarks wrote: »

Thanks for the info. Did you withdraw to the same account each time? or spread across a few accounts?

Just trying to avoid having to get friendly with NatWest fraud team :rotfl:

I moved mine into/ out of 3 different accounts but mainly the Yorks bank which was the one I then switched.
There really shouldn't be a problem once you can get to the second level of security because you can set up payees and then use them subsequently without further authority.
I shall be keeping this until the payout- and then hope another nice Halifax comes along- no rush!! (it's too soon now!)
I want it to look like a 'real' current a/c.........(whatever that is)

Missus_Hyde

telemarks wrote: »

Thanks for the info. Did you withdraw to the same account each time? or spread across a few accounts?

Just trying to avoid having to get friendly with NatWest fraud team :rotfl:

Hi Telemarks,

Having paid the £1500 into the NatWest a/c, I withdrew the chunks back to our main account, £400 one day and perhaps £300 over the next couple of days and then £400 and so on, until all the money was back in our original account.

I also made a few spends out of the NatWest account (I needed to buy a couple of rail tickets as I was going up to London over a couple of days and used the debit card for that, as I would have used that money from our main account anyway, so it was no inconvenience).

It just makes it look more like a used account, rather than simply paying a large sum of money in and then withdrawing it.

beefturnmail

A lot of people on here seem to be trying to make Natwest 'think' they are using the account 'properly' rather than simply to get the incentive (by making payments, several transfers etc.)

Just to confirm - this is completely unnecessary - so long as you meet the t & c - see my post #3 on this thread, you'll get the incentive, no matter what Natwest 'think' you are doing

originator

a bit of sense at last

ST-User

Maybe you are right, however it can't do any harm to show a more 'normal' activity, just to reduce the chance of a 50 min phone call to the fraud dept.