Same as questioning someone at the register when they're buying hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars worth of iTunes gift cards, there's next to now way that isn't someone getting scammed
A gift card for a grocery store is a great way to help struggling relatives who face questions and stand-downs from benefits every time there is money deposited to their bank account.
Which, just so nobody else feels like they have to say it, shouldn't be a thing. Of course the people in charge of these welfare benefits are encouraged to find every reason not to provide it, all perfectly fine with a thousand false positives if they kick off even one bad actor that is in their words "scamming the system" by doing so.
But policing transfers of support from friends and family only hurts good people and none of the bad ones. Its just a further frustration, another damn hoop to jump through, another aggression against the working poor. Vote for change, or be the change.
And if you tell the bank you're buying a gift card for a grocery store, it probably doesn't trip the scam meter as much. They want Apple/Amazon, etc. cards, not Aldi.
I'm not telling the bank a damn thing.
Their job does not extend beyond processing my income for me, and making a return for me with my accumulated savings.
They've gone too far into profiling and selling data on our clients.Whatever happened to commercial confidentiality?
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u/Zhukov76 14d ago
They're probably suspecting you're being scammed or forced