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Re:Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't... by zainhoda on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @02:15PM (#21008287)
In the 1990s, someone sent a fax to Chase with instructions to wire $25,000 out of my dad's bank account. When we discovered it was missing, they found the fax and realized that it wasn't my dad's signature and his name was misspelled. Chase put $25,000 back into my dad's bank account within about 2 weeks.

So yes, they will pay for it.

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Re:Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't... by MichaelDickens on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:58PM (#21009411)
Two weeks seems like an unreasonably long time to be missing $25,000. If my bank took that long to repay me that much money, I would probably switch banks.
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Re:Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't... by benj111 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:43PM (#21009199)
My Nans will was held up because she spelt my Uncles (her son) first and last name wrong. Professionally I've seen various other equally stupid errors over equally important things many times.

So I feel for Chase in this situation, I'm not suggesting they shouldn't have paid out.

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