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"For some strange reason when a bank calls the FBI things move with a high level of expediency." Is this really true? AFAIK illegal account accesses such as ph
by spurdoman77 7y ago
"For some strange reason when a bank calls the FBI things move with a high level of expediency."
Is this really true? AFAIK illegal account accesses such as phishing etc is fairly commonplace. Criminals steal low value from lots of accounts, and also the way they steal is not really traceable, not at least easily. How would they even know where to send the guns? And also I'm not really convinced that FBI priorizes bank cases, they probably prioritize all cases based on monetary value and maybe some harm factors, but I dont think banks get special treatment on principle. Sounds like bullshit to me to be frank.
- dontbenebby 7y agoI once heard an ancedote, I forget if it was the FBI or Secret Service (who deal with some financial matters due to the weird hybrid nature of the agency), but one or the other, at the time, allegedly would not even begin to investigate a matter of less than 5000 USD. Now if you can establish it's one person making many sub-5K transactions they may, but that's hard to do if they won't take notice. (The more I think the more I think it was the FBI, since the person also relayed that crimes against people often got short shrift since unfortunately one's feelings when threatened or harassed don't have an objective dollar amount)