British Retail Tesco Bank: 20,000 Customers Lose Money (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes:Tesco Bank has halted online payments for current account customers after money was taken from 20,000 accounts. The bank's chief executive Benny Higgins told the BBC he was "very hopeful" customers would be refunded within 24 hours. About 40,000 accounts saw suspicious transactions over the weekend, of which half had money taken, he said. Customers will still be able to use their cards for cash withdrawals, chip and pin payments, and bill payments. The bank is blocking customers from making online payments using their debit card, although transfers between accounts and to other people are still allowed, a spokesperson said. Earlier, the bank confirmed some accounts "have been subject to online criminal activity, in some cases resulting in money being withdrawn fraudulently."
For those of us in the US (and others not familiar with UK banking terms), a 'current account' is like a checking account in the US (not a savings account or other account).
That's what you get when you trust a company that deals in low-price groceries and let them run a bank... They are not the same thing.
I heard the interview; 24 "working hours" was quoted, so assuming 8 hours work days and that's 3 days elapsed time.
In the old days they just kept cash and gold in the vault. You actually had to *gasp*! walk into the bank to use their services.
How can they simply say "oops, money was taken from your accounts" and get away with it? They manage those accounts. It's their friggin' job to make sure money stays there.
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Credit unions are better.
Not necessarily. They might be better for a particular customer but you can't claim they are universally "better". Especially since you didn't define what "better" means here. Credit Unions are really just small banks with a novel ownership structure and they might be willing to hustle a bit more to get your business. But there are a lot of drawbacks to credit unions too. They don't usually have the latest and greatest technology. They have fewer ATMs and branches available. Membership can be restricted. Investing services can be limited and pricey if available at all.
For some people Credit Unions are a great deal. That's not true for everyone. For me a Credit Union is basically useless but that's just my particular situation. Your mileage may vary.
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I had a $20 transfer out of my savings account that wasn't from me. From what I found out, a cashier at Kohls dept store entered the routing/account numbers on a check wrong, which took the funds out of my savings account which doesn't even have checks. I got the funds back, but BofA said there was no way to prevent this from happening again.
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a 'current account' is like a checking account in the US
Apparently not the ones at Tesco Bank where it seems there is clearly no where near enough checking going on.
Mitchell & Webb - Identity Theft comes to mind.
The money was withdrawn WITHOUT proper authorization by the customers, it was not the customers who loses the money, but the bank.
This is in UK, not the US where banks just push all its losses to its customers (really, why do you guys in the US still put money into banks? They can just set your balance to zero and claim "identity theft"!), this quote in the article already made it very clear.
"Any financial loss that results from this fraudulent activity will be borne by the bank," Mr Higgins said. "Customers are not at financial risk."
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