don't forget to ask permission...

[glowroper.livejournal.com]

...to spend your own money, if you bank at Wainwright and use an ATM card to access your hoard. (Disclaimer: I otherwise love Wainwright Bank, as they are not only progressive in policy, but in action.)

My partner and I were in yesterday, because they now need to be alerted IN WRITING that you wish to leave town and use your ATM/debit card. Otherwise they will interpret purchases as attempts at fraud, and deny the transaction. (Yes, this has happened to me. Most embarrassing.)

They say this is to prevent possible theft; I say it is a theft of my privacy. They will be getting a[nother] nasty note from me when I return from the trip I leave on (in about half an hour). I say "another" because the written notification I gave them was so...vivid...that the Davis Square customer service person was going to fax it over to the main office, probably so they could use advanced graphological analysis to see how infuriated I am.

If I wanted to inform the authorities of my whereabouts, and ask permission to spend my own money, I would face the satellite cameras and vote Republican.

Comments

[ron_newman]

Seriously, this would never have occurred to me. Did your friend eventually get her money back?

I still worry a lot more about losing my ATM card and having someone using it fraudulently with a fake signature, than about this kind of freak thing.

[skate97.livejournal.com]

i think, though, that if that happens, you have a better chance of getting your money back. my brother was mugged at roxbury crossing T station a few years ago. they held him at knife point and demanded his pin number, and he had a friend who was mugged in the same way, and they told him that one guy would hold him while another guy checked to make sure it wasn't a phony pin, and if it was fake, they told him they'd kill him. so my brother started to give his real #, noticed a train was coming, and decided to make one up. they followed him onto the train, but he luckily lost them at a crowded stop and took off and found a cop. when he called home, my mom cancelled his bank card right away, and then checked the online banking and found out they had already used the card as a credit card--she called the cops and told them the store they had used it at, and they caught the kids.

[siderea]

Yeah, she did.