Posted on 01/20/2023 8:42:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
On Thursday, posts on social media showed video footage of Bank of America customers standing in line at the Bank, frantic to get information about their bank accounts that had been reduced by large sums of money- with no explanation of what was happening to them.
The footage prompted fears that the United States is entering a time of financial crisis.
One Independent Media source said Americans need to get ready for a ‘bail in’ and offered a laundry list of things Americans need to be thinking about as we enter some very tumultuous times.
“Bail-ins are where they just take some money from all bank accounts on file because it’s needed to help the “greater good” according to our friends from We Love Trump, who reported on the startling videos online on Thursday, adding a little background:
Bail-ins happened 10 years ago, according to Investopedia:
A bail-in is when a bank takes money from its customers to help keep the bank from going bankrupt. This is different from a bail-out, which is when the government gives money to a bank to help it stay open.
In 2013, the country of Cyprus had a big problem. Its banks were in danger of going bankrupt because they had lost a lot of money. The government of Cyprus and the European Union (EU) decided to do a bail-in.
This meant that the customers of the banks in Cyprus had to give up some of their money to help keep the banks open. People who had money in the bank had to give up some of it. This made some people very upset.
The EU and Cyprus government decided that people with less than 100,000 Euros in their bank accounts would not lose any money. But people with more than 100,000 Euros in their bank accounts would lose some of it.
At first, people were told that they would lose 6.75% of the money they had in the bank. But then it was changed to 9.9%. This meant that if someone had 100,000 Euros in the bank, they would lose 9,900 Euros.
This caused a lot of problems for people in Cyprus. Some people were not able to pay their bills because they had lost so much money. Some small businesses were not able to stay open because they did not have enough money.
The EU and Cyprus government said that they did the bail-in to help keep the banks open and to make sure that there would not be a big financial crisis in Cyprus. But some people did not agree with this. They thought that the government should have found a different way to help the banks without taking money from the people.
In conclusion, a bail-in is when a bank takes money from its customers to help keep the bank from going bankrupt. In 2013, the country of Cyprus had to do a bail-in to help its banks stay open. This meant that people with bank accounts in Cyprus had to give up some of their money. It caused some people a lot of problems, but the government and EU said that it was necessary to prevent a financial crisis.
According to social media reports that WLT found, we are experiencing something very similar right now and headed for trouble, as seen in this shocking video of a man who shows a crowd of people who are missing money from their accounts.
“Money is missing today, and customer service is hanging up on us and I am missing $1,400. This is crazy, very crazy. Bank of America is taking our money,” a man is heard saying, with others in the line agreeing with him and offering up their own stories.
Bank of America customers have funds suddenly missing from their accounts?#BankOfAmerica #BOA #MissingMoney pic.twitter.com/N7Mn0iSshK
— DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) January 19, 2023
“Reports all over the world that Bank of America customers are missing money from their accounts. Pull your money out of banks ASAP. They are all going to go under. Big bank runs incoming,”
Inflation Tracker (@TrackInflation) posted on Twitter on January 18, 2023.
Reports all over the world that Bank of America customers are missing money from their accounts. Pull your money out of banks ASAP. They are all going to go under. Big bank runs incoming.
pic.twitter.com/DhHGNCDG5v— Inflation Tracker (@TrackInflation) January 18, 2023
Other reports:
“Some Bank of America customers have reported money missing from their accounts. At least one person said their checking account was wiped clean.
— Christopher Greene 😎🏝🚀⛵️ (@amtvmedia) January 19, 2023
Here’s what BOA has said in response:
A lot of Bank of America customers are livid this morning after waking up to money missing from their accounts. Hear what @BankofAmerica says is causing the nationwide problem. @FOX5Vegas pic.twitter.com/k89nqMYBKL
— Feven Kay (@Feven_Kay) January 18, 2023
ABC13 reported on the official response by Bof A, adding more details:
Some Bank of America customers said money is missing from their accounts, including funds from Zelle deposits and transactions.
Rey Garcia has trusted Bank of America with his money for 20 years.
But when he noticed the problem happening to others, he went to check his own account.
“I was surprised, like, whoa,” Garcia said. “So I checked my transactions. I had, like, 15 different Zelle transactions. That was, like, a red flag for me right there because I don’t remember doing all that in one day.”
He says almost $700 went missing from his account. He called customer service with no luck getting a representative.
Garcia tells ABC13 he has pending transactions scheduled to come out Thursday for his bills.
“I’m going to have to go in there and dig in my savings account, which I don’t want to use, but these bills got to get paid, you know what I mean?” he said.
A Bank of America spokesman told ABC7 San Francisco that the problem has been resolved and the deposits and transfers are starting to appear in customers’ accounts.
DownDetector, a website that monitors the statuses of websites, said that “user reports indicate problems at Bank of America,” with the first user-submitted reports coming in at 1:42 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18. Sixty-six percent of reports indicated there was an issue with “funds transfer.”
BofA customers on social media also report that when trying to place a call to customer service, they receive a message that their call cannot be completed due to “extenuating circumstances.” At one branch location in Houston, a line of more than a dozen customers waited for help, with several of them saying money was missing from their accounts. They’re telling ABC13 Houston that they’ve been told to call customer service, but they can’t get through to representatives on the phone, so they showed up in person.
“Has the entire phone customer service team been fired? I have been trying to reach anyone through the helpline for 20 minutes with no luck, even the fraud line is down,” tweeted one customer.
Bank of America put a warning on its app, saying: “Please note: Zelle transactions made between January 14 and January 17 may be delayed in occurring and posting to accounts as requested. Transfers will be completed and will appear in your account activity and balances as soon as possible. We apologize for any delays or inconvenience.”
We Love Trump has a lot more on a financial crash on some ways to prepare for what looks like a strange time ahead.
All to impoverish the American worker.
If I had hundreds if thousands, I’m not certain if I could stop myself from burning down the bank.
Sheesh, Don’t panic. It’s fixed
“Bank of America acknowledged that there was a problem with processing Zelle transactions, but said that it was resolved later on Wednesday.
“We did have an issue where there was a delay in posting Zelle transactions. It was resolved earlier today, so that all the transactions are showing in people’s accounts,” Bill Halldin, a spokesperson for Bank of America, told FOX Business.”
The reserve requirement for banks has been 0% for a few years. Many have very little physical cash on hand. Thank you fractional reserve lending imaginary bookkeeping money out of thin air.
https://time.com/6248246/bank-of-america-zelle-missing-money/
Time magazine coverage on this Zelle payments glitch
This was nothing to do with bail-ins or impoverishing the American worker.
Fraudulent journalism from the right (increasingly common).
Maybe this is happening in other banks besides BofA.
Maybe it’s happening to people with very small amounts in their checking accounts.
Something happened to me earlier this month that might simply be a malfunctioning ATM, and might have been something else.
I have a small credit account with Wells Fargo. I also have a savings account with them. On Jan.2, 2023, I deposited a business check to me for about $800 in a Safeway ATM.
I noticed it was taking the machine a long time to show me the total dollar amount of my check as it usually does.
I would see the total amount deposited in lower right corner. This time it kept scanning.
Finally, the machine instructed me to insert an ‘estimate dollar amount’. Which I did. I was told their was a system malfunction and Wells Fargo would need to ‘review’.
The review would be done within 10 business days.
That was a shock. I had already made plans to use that money.
After calling Customer Service, I was told the same thing over and over. The ‘review’ would be done within 10 business days. I asked to recieve a partial dollar advance on that amount.
They couldn’t do that, I was told.
I got emails daily with my Case Number.
But learned nothing new until about five days later, when the email said the ‘Review was complete, and my funds would be available starting that morning. Praise God! I thought.
I was also told I would receive a letter in the physical mail explaining what happened.
The letter came, and said nothing that I didn’t already know. Their ‘review’ was opened on X date and concluded on X date. Thank you for your patience!! They had the b*lls to say.
I still don’t know what happened, or how to prevent it in the future. I’ve already told that store manager about the ATM. Maybe this was nothing but a mechanical error from the ATM. Would have been nice if they had told me this.
Another reason to put all my bank account and credit card information on my cell phone……
The minute I paid off my first mortgage early 25 years ago, I closed my Bank of ScAmerica account and went to credit unions.
Never looked back.
I cannot for the life of me understand how or why anyone would bank with Bank of America.
Or Wells Fargo either, for that matter.
Are these people stupid? Have they had their heads in the sand for years now?
They get what they deserve.
When I turned 18 I started an account with Chase and had the opposite problem. I got a deposit for $25,000 and never found out where it came from. I ended up paying taxes on it and keeping it.
Well, Soon they’ll be no physical cash.
They’ll take it all and you’ll get nothing.
Since I retired I closed my Capital One account and am strictly using credit unions for my banking. I've seen enough horror stories regarding, Capital One, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase, etc., to stay away from them.
Us too, crooks all.
For myself, I would never deposit a check at an ATM. I know too many people who have had problems.
I use my Credit Union’s App for depositing the rare check I receive.
I fired BofA years ago when it was clear they were circling the drain. Maybe time to fire the other big boys, too. Certainly would not keep any significant amount of cash there.
The other key message is avoid ZELLE at all costs! Don’t trust any money transfer service or provide them with access to any account with major $$$.
I love my credit union(s). :)
It’s all about the narrative. Increasingly taking on more traits previously found mainly on the Left.
This was an old story by the time this “source” published this article.
Apparently the right’s solution to the MSM fake news is not to report the facts to counter it, but simply come up with our own fake news publications.
I’ll be looking into the local Credit Unions.
Maybe there is greater security there.
I can’t go through too many more weeks like this one, with the bank playing Hide and Seek with my money without me doing something that may get me into trouble. It was devastating.
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