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Originally Posted by Slava
cowperson gave the rational answer above. You shouldn't jump to conclusions about fraud and theft without having something to base that on here. Any advisor keeps notes about their meetings (we have to, for situations like this amongst others).
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Unfortunately, I disagree with this assertion. I had a very large sum of money ($18,000) go missing at a bank due to an internal "electronic" theft. Essentially someone performed a wire transfer through my account to an offshore bank. They kept insisting it was a computing error, and they will have the funds back within 14 days. But it still made no sense since it was an actual money transfer that someone would have had to have manually performed.
The only way I found out was when I was closing my account (since I no longer trusted them) I told the Personal Banker "I can't trust a bank after someone stole money from me" She responded, "I am sorry, that was an isolated incident, you weren't the only victim, and everyones money was returned." I responded "So then it wasn't an internal computing "error" my money was stolen. Good to know." Her reaction to that comment was very telling. I could tell she wasn't supposed to tell me after I said that.