Ri-ight!
"The reason I'm withdrawing money? I want to make a donation to the 'Re-elect President Trump' fund!"
"Sorry, we believe that you are being scammed and/or are suffering a brain aneurysm and have therefore blocked your account!"
Regards,
I guy I know worked at Target for awhile (yeah, I know it’s Target). He told me this story. An older lady came in, and wanted to buy $1000 worth of gift cards. Fortunately, one of the employees there asked her why she wanted to do that.
He had no right to ask. But lucky that he did. The lady had received a scam phone call telling her that her social security number was being suspended for nonpayment of taxes. And she would not be getting any more social security checks until she paid that tax. Using gift cards, of course.
The employee talked her out of doing that.
Now, I love a good conspiracy story. And these days, most conspiracy stories are turning out to be true. But I really think the banks are trying to do the right thing here. But they are doing it the wrong way. No interrogation of customers. Just hand them a sheet explaining the scams. Then let the customer decide.