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1 posted on 04/25/2018 12:09:23 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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They should sue.......


2 posted on 04/25/2018 12:12:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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Gee, I thought all that money was free.


3 posted on 04/25/2018 12:14:49 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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I’d be at the local branch every day with my kids asking why it’s taking so long to fix their error.

By this time, I’d be begging for money at the bank from other customers.


4 posted on 04/25/2018 12:15:40 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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The bank should have to pay them a lot.


5 posted on 04/25/2018 12:16:04 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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What a mess. Meanwhile, the bank, Barclay acts as though this family does not even exist except as a possible account error that the bank is not ready to admit to.

The family is doing the right thing going full public with their predicament. Sometimes the court of public opinion can work in your favor when nothing else gets a reaction.
Many families are only one paycheck away from total financial collapse.


6 posted on 04/25/2018 12:16:43 PM PDT by lee martell
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You mean you have/had 2.1 mil in the bank, had a problem.... and couldn’t get it resolved in 12 hours.


7 posted on 04/25/2018 12:17:12 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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When you put money in a bank, remember, the money is no longer yours, it is theirs. You are simply and unsecured creditor. Banks also are highly political entities, who are busy keeping up with government regulations concerning the monitoring of your behavior

Your actual needs come further down on the list of their principal concerns.


8 posted on 04/25/2018 12:17:29 PM PDT by PGR88
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An overdraft is a bank loan to cover a negative balance on one’s account... it has to be paid back...


9 posted on 04/25/2018 12:17:35 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Wow. This is amazing. Crazy!

Easter Monday is a national holiday there? Why don’t us Yanks have off Easter Monday?


12 posted on 04/25/2018 12:20:21 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Identity theft?


14 posted on 04/25/2018 12:25:06 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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After a day or two was the time to seek legal counsel. The threat of a lawsuit usually gets complaints expedited.

This happened to a family member on a much lower scale (a couple grand). There was no record of a deposit in their computer, but the family member had a deposit receipt made by a teller. The bank wanted to take custody of that slip of paper, to which the response started with Hell and ended with No.

They graciously issued a “conditional deposit” to the account and eventually found their error.

I still get paper statements. It is not complete security, but it is a written record at a point in time.


15 posted on 04/25/2018 12:26:21 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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In 1978, I’d been working overseas for almost two years and banking most of my paycheck for almost five years. Finally got back to San Francisco, went into the Crocker Bank branch and found out my bank account didn’t exist. All my life savings - gone - POOF! The bank teller was uncooperative. Got the branch manager and he literally said “You probably bounced a check.” He was totally useless and hostile.

I went to the library, got the names of all the state banking commissioners and the top bank executives and wrote them all a letter. I went into the bank a few days later and the manager was profusely apologetic, addressed me as “Mr.” and “Sir” and worked with the teller to fix the problem on the spot. They couldn’t even calculate the interest I was owed, so I ran the calls and showed them how wrong they were. They used my calcs and gave me the back interest.

Morals of the story. 1. Banks are always fouled up. 2. Go straight to the top and get the government regulators involved.


20 posted on 04/25/2018 12:31:36 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Even identity theft doesn’t make sense.

If a small family has a few thousand in the bank, the bank isn’t going to cover a huge million dollar overdraft.

Such an attempted overdraft would be rejected.
Overdraft protection is a loan.

The bank isn’t going to loan you a million pounds when you only have a couple thousand in your account, and have never had more than that.


21 posted on 04/25/2018 12:32:43 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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I’d think this would be super-easy to fix. Open a new account somewhere else, and change your direct deposits and debits to that account while Barclays futz around and figure out their error.


22 posted on 04/25/2018 12:33:17 PM PDT by dinodino
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“Maybe Barclays could explain why my account was suspended so abruptly with no explanation.”

They could but they won't. For the same reason a dog licks his b@ll$.

26 posted on 04/25/2018 12:43:59 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
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Their mistake, you’re screwed. Your mistake, you’re screwed. Gonna be fun when there is no more cash, and all money is electronic. Computer systems are NEVER designed with the ability to correct error. When there’s a “glitch,” no one knows what the (****) to do, and you’re screwed. You can’t prove you didn’t do something.

There is no such thing as a glitch. It’s human error blamed on the dumb computer.


27 posted on 04/25/2018 12:44:15 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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The law should demand that banks give such cases the highest priority to resolve expeditiously, and each such case should be reviewed afterward by banking regulators, to determine if in fact the bank did all it could to resolve the matter quickly.


28 posted on 04/25/2018 12:47:12 PM PDT by Wuli
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Just the way the progressives want it.


30 posted on 04/25/2018 12:51:40 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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As long as they didn’t spend it, it should be easy to resolve.


31 posted on 04/25/2018 12:56:33 PM PDT by Zathras
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Someone in the Barclay system likely has been shifting money into, then out of accounts. Perhaps a money laundering effort. Their manipulations resulted in an internal transaction error; and, likely they were caught-out by the overdrawn account as evidence of the scheme.

The account holders should raise hell loudly to gain public notice of the bank’s neglect in resolving the issue.


35 posted on 04/25/2018 1:20:12 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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