Crazy how you can open a brokerage account at a large bank and they can just… Close it and refuse to give you your money back. Like what am I going to do, go to the police?
That does sound crazy. Literally—without knowing some details and something about the person making the claim, I think it’s more likely the person is leaving out important bits or fully hallucinating some of the communications, rather than just being randomly targeted.
That’s just based on my priors, and it wouldn’t take much evidence to make me give more weight to possibilities of a scammer at the bank stealing account contents and then covering their tracks, or bank processes gone amok and invoking terrorist/money-laundering policies incorrectly.
Going to police/regulators does sound appropriate in the latter two cases. I’d start with a private lawyer first, if the sums involved are much larger than the likely fees.
Crazy how you can open a brokerage account at a large bank and they can just… Close it and refuse to give you your money back. Like what am I going to do, go to the police?
That does sound crazy. Literally—without knowing some details and something about the person making the claim, I think it’s more likely the person is leaving out important bits or fully hallucinating some of the communications, rather than just being randomly targeted.
That’s just based on my priors, and it wouldn’t take much evidence to make me give more weight to possibilities of a scammer at the bank stealing account contents and then covering their tracks, or bank processes gone amok and invoking terrorist/money-laundering policies incorrectly.
Going to police/regulators does sound appropriate in the latter two cases. I’d start with a private lawyer first, if the sums involved are much larger than the likely fees.
An attorney rather than the police, I think.