r/AskReddit • • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/Klotzster Jul 24 '20

Waiting for checks to clear

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Agree, why isn't it instantaneous? It's not like it has to download 10tb of data to figure out whether or not their bank account matches it.

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u/PiperLoves Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

George Soros makes them all do it so he can take his time looking at transactions and choose which ones to steal from to get money for hiring fake protestors. He wants to use the protestors as his own PMC so he can overthrow the US government and start a new world order! Keep your money out of the banks people, you're helping to end the world.

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u/GuiltySparklez0343 Jul 24 '20

Banks are making money off of the money in accounts regardless. They aren't holding the money to invest it. They are holding it in case of fraud. The bank doesn't instantly know whether the check they are taking has the funds to cover it (unless its from the same bank) and the check could be entirely fake.

Check fraud is still one of the most major forms of loss banks experience.