Internet banking is very handy. I have been using it for 5 years to pay bills and track expenses. What’s really great though is that I can live in Guatemala and maintain an account in Canada without having to walk into a bank. <\/p>\n
For two weeks, I went without internet at my home because a part was broken on my ISP’s satellite dish. It didn’t matter too much because I was busy working with short term teams and I didn’t have enough energy to watch a movie in the evenings, let alone do banking. <\/p>\n
I did manage to get onto the internet at one point to pay off my credit card balance in mid-March. I have no recollection as to where I did this, though it was probably done at the office. On the same day, an $850 email money transfer was performed on my chequing account without my authorization. <\/p>\n
I continued on my whirlwind work weeks without a clue as to the transfer. Finally, once my internet was restored and some personal time too, I sat down to do some banking. I realized that my password didn’t work, but I thought that was because I had waited too long to use a special code that my mom had gotten in the mail a while back. I had the code, but I didn’t know where to put it, so I phoned my bank.<\/p>\n
Password reset, I discovered that there was less money than I had anticipated and I started browsing the transactions in my chequing account and discovered this mysterious email transfer. I was still on the phone with the bank agent and had him investigate. <\/p>\n
The agent interrogated me. He gave me the email address the transfer was sent to (something@rogers.com) and it wasn’t recognizable. He said the bank would look into it and the investigation could take up to 10 business days.<\/p>\n
My online access was denied since then as the bank looked into the transfer. I called them today to see if they had made any progress and they had. I gained access to my account. The $850 was returned to my account last week along with the $1.50 service charge.<\/p>\n
That was a flat story, wasn’t it? Was there any doubt I would get it back? Bank error in your favour, get your money back.<\/i> I didn’t lose any sleep over it. I didn’t call everyday to see how it was going. I just waited for the story to go flat. Maybe I just knew it would all be resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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