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February 05, 2004
Good procedure gone wrong

I recently had to do some shuffling around of several bank accounts, and I got the attached letter from my bank to my "old" address as a security confirmation. The idea is that if somebody else had somehow changed my address (say, to intercept my statements), I'd receive a notification for it. It's a very good policy.

In this case, however, it's more "amusing" and "pointless" than "secure". In fairness to Wells Fargo Bank, my couple of accounts were quite messed up, and there had been a lotof changes, and it's not surprising that the chain triggered this note to me.

Posted by Steve at February 05, 2004 08:41 AM | TrackBack
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Well, to be fair, there WAS an address change. You may notice the ZIP code changed from ZIP+4 to just ZIP.

It's probably a strict comparison $old_addr != $new_addr, so the notice goes out.

D

Posted by: Derek on February 5, 2004 08:53 AM
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