I am glad someone reads those. When I was 15 and got my bank account, while making cash deposits I used to put "I use Arch-based distro, btw" into the "note" field.
It was Manjaro with Plasma. Now I use vanilla Arch.

Lol it was cocaine and he got a visit from the fbi from what I heard but not much more than that. Rich kid of course.

Yeah. I'm sure that's what actual bad guys do. They label their crimes and plots clearly with bank transactions.

What a bunch of fucking idiots.

I guess, but people post actual links to things purchasable on Amazon without getting downvoted on significantly more anti capitalist servers than sh.itjust.works all the time. It was also +2/-2 at the time I commented, so it seemed like more of a trend.

That said, check out their profile, their comments rarely register and are heavily downvoted all over the place. I suspect the user has some history and people look for reasons to downvote. It doesn’t matter, but it feels catty and isolating, so I wanted to say something in support.

But imagine the outrage if a terrorist group actually marked their payments like this – maybe the day before their suicide attack – with the thought that what does it matter anyway they won't be here to be investigated.

And the bank didn't investigate. The bank would be fined to hell and back and lose all trust, because they couldn't do "the bare minimum" in finding something this obvious.

The video game Eve Online, a game about spaceships, had a screen listing all spaceships in the game and their stats.

It went by it's acronym, which stood for Interbus Ship Identification System.

It had since been renamed.

I guess the only thing that reads most of those is one poor regexec(3) in a loop.

Do you hate your bank? Go find a bank you like.

*their

And no, silly. They'd use code words.

Worked in retail banking for 7 years. Can tell you that the tellers are required to submit illegal activities to the investigation department. Not only this but things like elder abuse, child abuse, identify thief (happens too often with parents and their unwilling kids).

Ya, don't mess with banks. Because you might mess yourself up or someone you care about.

Bonus Story: I had someone come into the branch wanting me to try and change a line item that said something like blowjobs from a coworker that was paying him back for lunch. Dude was getting a divorce and that shit caused a ton of headache for him.

Jeez. Even when I was a child in the 1980s I clearly remember that is one of the words we absolutely must never say at an airport. Your dad is somethin' speshul.

They absolutely fuckin' do. It is stunning how stupid some people are, especially when committing a crime, especially online.

Sure, just hide the fact that you are funding ISIS and the Taliban, the banker is on your side!

JK folk.

Luckily, I only have debt on my account.

When I was applying for a house mortgage, the case officer was asking me questions about the ins and outs of my financial transactions relating to my investments, because I made multiple deposits in a short period of time. I felt like I was being interrogated and I was annoyed on why the need for that level of scrutiny. Then I remembered that criminals have used buying properties for money laundering, or their initial capital came from criminal activities. There is a posh neighbourhood near where I live, and I saw couple of rough looking families having a gathering in a restaurant. I'm pretty sure they live in that area as well, and if they are, there is a likelihood that they may have bought or are renting properties using dark money (not that rich, suit-wearing people don't do this either).

Yes, underwriting is pretty strict on that shit. Also, don't deposit over 10k without a good reason. We will need to do a CTR, which reports that cash deposit. CSR if that transaction seems sus.

Your bank invests your money in selling arms to other countries all the time. They're already complicit in all manner of things. They just don't want it spelt out.

Like "nabilat gniniart"

are you calling the banks idiots? they are required to investigate. and yes bad guys are fucking retarded.

I happened sat near one of the guys who did that when I worked at a bank. Basically any transaction that was slightly outside of normal he'd look at, look at who the customer is and go "oh yeah it's spring and the construction company is spending more on supplies just like every year, oh but what is Darla doing right now that looks odd? Jimmy's deposit for his new motorcycle got flagged but that's pretty obviously what it is..." You get the gist.

Also a high chance that every mobile check deposit photo gets reviewed by a human being too. I saw so many communications about scummy companies sending fake checks as marketing and people misunderstanding and trying to deposit them, or just blatant fraud that might pass an automated verification but is obvious upon human review

Banking is one of the few industries that still relies heavily on human review for basically everything because it's so heavily regulated. But also it's one of the few industries that hasn't super consolidated down to a handful of companies so you can quite easily go to a small community bank that's locally owned and operated. And that's also partially thanks to regulations as well. I remember the bank I was working at really wanted to open a couple of new branches but they were severely limited due to it being in a different state and some other laws that weren't fully explained to me

I guarantee every single one of those transactions got flagged and a report was written as per federal banking regulations. If they didn't the bank could face heavy fines for failing to monitor for illegal financial transactions. Do most of those reports amount to nothing? Absolutely but the reports get filed and the paper trail exists

UK me but yeah likely the FCSC is logging them. I don’t really care to be honest. I’m pretty sure they’ve got a lot worse logged about me

I consider psychology a soft science so nothing the following list of people do I listen to without heaps of salt but... this is maybe not totally without merit? I won't go as far as saying pseudoscience. Erik Erikson, Lawrence Kohlberg, Robert Kegan, and Carl Jung have all discussed this in some way.

Personally I imagine it more like a radial/radar chart than just simple all encompassing levels.

Find a credit union instead. If you are banking at an institution with shareholders, the profits are going to rich assholes instead of serving its customers.

For real though, the only way to deal with pervasive surveillance is to give them too much noise to surveil.

But cash app, venmo, chime, etc. they are not banks maybe that's the difference but trust me you can put whatever you want and no one is investigating shit. Like so many people paying "ISIS" during college for a slice of pizza IDK what reality you live in

I used to work for Chime. They make a huge effort to ensure that they never ever say they are bank. I would never bank there ever.

Ya, we can even submit CTRs even if you didn't deposit over 10k. It's just required IF you do.

A majority of teenagers are weird because they overestimate the social reward they get from risks they take. There is definitely a huge amount of adults that never felt consequences or adversity, which has led to their lack of growth.

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