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Re:I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is si... by codedokode on Monday June 24, 2019 @11:52AM (#20264793)
Maybe that system was low quality and blocked valid transactions?
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Re:I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is si... by dyadic on Monday June 24, 2019 @12:38PM (#20265404)
Maybe it was, but that's not a good excuse. "We wrote some software to prevent money laundering but it was crap so we turned it off"
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Re:I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is si... by orf on Monday June 24, 2019 @06:45PM (#20269327)
> We attempted to write some software to prevent money laundering but it didn't work. So we turned it off.

What are you talking about, that's completely reasonable.

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Re:I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is si... by SpicyLemonZest on Monday June 24, 2019 @06:14PM (#20269078)
That seems like an entirely reasonable response in isolation. Sometimes you write new software and find it just doesn't work in production. Were they not doing anything else to prevent money laundering?
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Re:I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is si... by bigiain on Monday June 24, 2019 @08:40PM (#20270083)
Or "We wrote some software to prevent money laundering but it worked properly and blocked heaps of profitable transactions, so we turned it off"
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