Comment by grebc
8 days ago
You’re making life miserable with such ideas.
I bought a house earlier this year and the bank froze my deposit I sent to the real estate agent.
I rang the bank straight away and badgered them to unlock it ASAP in case the sale fell through for their BS fraud department to sift it.
They blamed the fact the real estate they’d never transacted with before, I politely told them they’re based in one state while I was purchasing in another.
It took 2 hours of back and forth to get them to send it, even after they did all their security questions.
It’s all a fugazi, they/governments do not want you having large amounts of money - it’s as simple as that.
Actually it's kind of the opposite. Right now the banks know how easy it is for someone to end up getting scammed, so they try to be really strict on picking up on potentially fraudulent transactions precisely because they can't trust endpoint security.
If they have something like this in place, they will have greater confidence in the transaction being genuine and less likely to block it. In this case, for such a large amount of money, relative to the size of your account, they might still be very cautious about it, but it would be less likely to cause an issue.
Several years ago, I wired some money overseas. I saw a way cool idea (some art project that I can't find online any more) for a carpet, and some carpet-making-person on reddit was "yeah, I can have that made".
When I got to the bank, they hassled me a lot, figuring I'm getting scammed. They surrendered when I said basically, "hey, it's only $250 and if it is a scam, he earned the money, so why stop it?"
Apparently a bunch of other people wanted something close (not quite the same as mine, but should give you an idea of it):
https://www.reddit.com/r/FrankOcean/comments/48nor0/heres_th...
3x5 feet. Included shipping from Pakistan.
Yes, that’s what they’ve told you. Good that you listen to them.