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I went to my bank in person to tell them I was going abroad for some time - gave them dates, locations, etc. The rep put a note on my account, but it was still
by blowski 10y ago
I went to my bank in person to tell them I was going abroad for some time - gave them dates, locations, etc. The rep put a note on my account, but it was still frozen due to suspicious activity. I could only reopen it by visiting a branch in person. That was 10 years ago.
- Silhouette 10y agoI feel your pain. In my case, after being stranded in a foreign country with none of my cards working despite giving the bank advance notice of where and when I'd be abroad, I was told on the phone that an email hadn't gone through from the customer service rep I'd spoken with to the relevant security team. If I could call back on Monday when the security team was in, they could get it all sorted out for me. I was on holiday for a long weekend, Thursday-Tuesday. It was Friday evening when I called them.
- midgetjones 10y agoI had the opposite experience - I worked on cruise ships for two years without telling my bank. Drew money out and used my card, sometimes in different countries on consecutive days, without a single issue. Came home, got a day job, and my card got flagged for 'suspicious activity' when I started following the same pattern every day of buying a train ticket and lunch from the same shop. If that's suspicious, there must be some really unimaginative fraudsters out there.