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Update: I finally got my bank's app to stop flagging my rent check as fraud
Every month for like 6 months, my $1,200 rent payment to my landlord through Zelle would get blocked and I'd have to call. This time I tried sending it as two smaller payments, $600 each, a day apart, and it went right through. Is this a common workaround or did I just get lucky?
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jakejones25d agoMost Upvoted
Ever have a friend who kept getting their car payment flagged? They started sending it as "Auto Loan" instead of the dealership name and the bank stopped freezing it. Maybe your bank just gets spooked by big round numbers going to the same person every month.
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kelly63825d ago
Change the payment name to something generic like "car payment" or "auto loan." My bank flagged mine for months because I sent it to "Smithtown Ford." Once I switched the label, the holds stopped. The fraud systems really do get tripped up by specific business names on regular transfers.
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hill.margaret25d ago
That's wild but makes total sense lol. My buddy's bank kept flagging his rent check until he just put "housing" in the memo line.
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