New Barclays account to be closed, No reason given

born_again

trient said:

ivormonee said:

trient said:

some internal exchanges that alluded to suspicion of fraud

It seems an exceptionally low bar to have bank accounts unilaterally closed on mere suspicion of fraud, without anything more tangible. 

And that's why, in spite of the usual advice here to leave it and move on, I insisted on taking the issue beyond the mere "computer says no". Of course they never "tipped me off" as to the nature of their initial ruling, but they did eventually carry out an internal investigation and must have realised they were in the wrong. But yes, their unilateral action was completely unwarranted hence I wasn't able to let it go.

Computer will only say NO when you apply. Anything after account is opened, that is due to human intervention.

Nasqueron

boingy said:

The "tipping-off" thing always has me a bit puzzled. If you're up to no good and your account gets frozen surely that a pretty big clue that you've been rumbled. You'd have to be daft to think anything else.

And most people are not up to no good!

Because they don't want the people who are up to no good to be able to work out how they were compromised, whether it was a particular payment (so they know not to use that way again) or the type of payments (so they know to vary them) etc. Anyone doing a crime will know there is a chance they get rumbled eventually so giving them help on how they were caught is banned