In Canada the gov't does track peoples' bank account activities looking for various forms of fraud, including money laundering from crime. They have a computer program that looks for certain indicators and if you pop up on the radar, a fraud specialist checks you out thoroughly. It's all done silently so we don't realize that we are being financially policed until we've been identified as "suspicious".
if you are a citizen of the country where the bank is - surely they know or can get the info pretty fast, tho it depends on the laws -- some countries have laws giving the bank a right to disclose limited information (or nothing at all) about the client if there is no criminal case.
In Canada the gov't does track peoples' bank account activities looking for various forms of fraud, including money laundering from crime. They have a computer program that looks for certain indicators and if you pop up on the radar, a fraud specialist checks you out thoroughly. It's all done silently so we don't realize that we are being financially policed until we've been identified as "suspicious".
You might be confusing banks monitoring their clients accounts for fraud and money laundering with governments.
It's well known that banks have software that monitors account activity for signs of fraud or money laundering, if it detects anything, they will investigate and report it to the government if necessary.
I post on GFY so that when people ask me what I do,
I can tell them that I work with the mentally retarded.
There was a thread posted about banking that said a form is filled out on any deposit over 10k. This was in the US and they said ti was similar in Canada. Wiredguy and kimmykim posted in it.
You might be confusing banks monitoring their clients accounts for fraud and money laundering with governments.
It's well known that banks have software that monitors account activity for signs of fraud or money laundering, if it detects anything, they will investigate and report it to the government if necessary.
yes I think she's a little confused. There are certain activities that the banks file reports for, like large bundles of cash, incoming wire transfers over X dollars etc.
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