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> I highly doubt that that's true, though. For one thing, this would trivially fail in case the recipient account has already cashed out the funds. Being banks
by FireBeyond 3y ago
> I highly doubt that that's true, though. For one thing, this would trivially fail in case the recipient account has already cashed out the funds.
Being banks (not that you can't otherwise, but still) it's also entirely possible for them to overdraw your account to do so.
And then if you don't care about that, close your account and report it to Chex Systems, which will make opening any bank or CU account quite difficult.
- lxgr 3y agoI don't know the details of Zelle scams, but my guess would be that the payee accounts usually aren't under the control of people that care about keeping them open in the long term (i.e. have either been taken over by fraudsters or have been opened fraudulently).