Banks or Gangs? 3
I wrote about the mess banks are in; but to be fair there is someone/group in TD bank trying to improve service and attitudes. Whether it is going to be successful or not, still to be seen. I have doubts; because unfortunately, there are some people in all banks who believe in “it is us against them”; 'them' meaning customers.
After I posted part 1, some people who love to criticizes everybody else voiced their 'opinions' saying it was CRA (Canada Revenue Agency). First; CRA should not and does NOT tell people what, how much and where to invest their RRSP. Second; anybody that has a brain and read Part 1 would have found out immediately that it was never about CRA; it was about my RIGHT to CHOOSE and DECIDE how to invest my RRSP; not the bloody CIBC decides for me against my will??? Also some indicated that banks do not inform customers if CRA took their money. In general; people entrust banks with their money, so if the status or anything happened to that money even by a legal requirement, the bank has the obligation and duty to inform the customer of the situation. This is a form of a contract between the customers and their bank, nobody else. We understand that banks have to obey legal matters, but that does not mean they have to be sloppy and do not do their duties. Also in many cases there is a time limit for the customer to take actions to recover their money. That is why banks charge service fees and make profits on customers' money, not because banks are so cute. What if the bank took the money letting customer assume it was CRA?
The following incident is very strange and if I were not part of it, I would not have believed it. But sometimes reality is more strange than fiction. Just few weeks before the maturity of my GICs in 2017, I received 2 phone contacts. The first was a text message informing me that I have a tax problem and directed me to call an 800 number. When I did not call I received a phone call with a recorded message of tax problem and an 800 number; I did not respond again. Then I got a call from CIBC to go and discuss the maturing GICs. During the meeting, after failing to sell me crappy Mutual Fund, out of the blue I was asked about my taxes? Then one week after the meeting I received a 3rd call. Some might think it is a coincidence; but I think it is too much coincidence. Personally, I think there is always a reason/motive for everything. When the Tax Scam was first revealed on the News, I just felt that “it is an inside job or at least inside connection”. Whoever is doing that scam will not go to the phone book and haphazardly pickup numbers. It would be waste of time, they do not know anything about these prospective victims; whether they can pay anything or not. It would be more effective if information about that person is known in advance. Who are the best people to know how much a prospective victim has and how much they can pay? It is even better if some personal characteristics are known. Who are the best people to know some tax details about prospective victims? Put these 2 together and you have a formidable and convincing force for scamming. It was reported on the News that some estimate that the scam has cost Canadians Hundreds of Millions of Dollars. With that amount of money, the obvious question is; who was involved? It was also reported that police have arrested some people in India as the scammers. Do they think that they have got the Master Minds of the scam, or these are the poor operators? Personally, these are pawns/patsies that real scammers put in front to be arrested to calm victims and get the issue and search die down. This conclusion is an educated guess. I do not have solid proof, therefore I can not be 100% sure. However these 'Indian' operators knew things about me only people I have been in contact with before would know.
I do not know if it is coincident or not. Just after I posted my say, whenever I am connected to the Internet I get this notification of my location at the bottom of the screen with the name of the city I am in. I know what it is!! Or is it that some people are telling me "we know where you are". It stopped now. Any way I just thought I mention it.
Ever wondered why there are no actions taken to stop banks?
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GRUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah.......................... that is about your speed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You aint seeing the BIG PICTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Firstly -the Cdn banks are NOT in a mess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are the most fiscally solid ones on the planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fiscally solid is GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But uncontrolled and unregulated GREED as our banks are engaged in is BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the Cdn banks post record profits every year because LIE-berals allow it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AS for CRA- I was one of those who BLAMED BANKS for grabbing money from so called "abandoned" accounts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cited the example of a savings account set up with the same, name. address and phone number of my chequing account- in the SAME BANK BRANCH - and the chequing account was USED WEEKLY for pay cheques and for mortgage payments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yet in spite of my weekly banking activity- my bank - one of the BIG 5 - chose to declare my savings account "abandoned" and took the money for themselves- AFTER giving a nice CUT to CRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IN SPITE of my weekly presence in the bank I WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE IMPENDING CONFISCATION OF MY SAVINGS ACCOUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not by my bank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nor by CRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And CRA WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT LOW ACCOUNT ACTIVITY IF BANKS HAD NOT WARNED THEM of the profitable opportunity coming up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CRA DOES NOT monitor weekly bank activity- they have IN BANK SNITCHES for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for your GIC`s- be aware that most information put online IS AT RISK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And all it takes- even if you dont bank online- is for some low level bank employee to accept a bribe in exchange for printing off a list of names of people whose GIC`s are maturing- and sending the list off to scammers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the tax scammers- BLAME THAT ON LIE-BERALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The DIRTY SWINE have been IGNORING white collar crime for DECADES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many here will recall the stupid look on the face of Conrad Black as he got photographed while removing masses of probably incriminating papers from his Toronto office in defiance of a LIE-beral COURT ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Blakc had the aid of his LIMO DRIVER to move those DOZENS OF BOXES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
And in spite of the court order about the document...............of course Black was NEVER CHARGED with any crime in Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cdn LIE-berals left it to Yankees to set a trial for Black!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals are so CHEAP WITH LEGAL COSTS that they released SEVEN ACCUSED KILLERS WITHOUT the bother of a trial in summer 2017!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In that same year - LIE-berals also released - with out the bother of a costly trial- four men in two separate FRAUD CASES who had STOLEN a total of $44 million dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And LIE-berals have been stung by public reaction to the release of hard core criminals so now privacy laws are apparently in place!!!!
Sadly, not so many people will recall the Calgary chief of police appearing on national news about 20 years back- and looking straight into the cameras and announcing: "it is now the policy of Calgary police NOT TO BOTHER INVESTIGATING CASES OF MORTGAGE FRAUD"!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND WHY would a top cop NOT CARE ABOUT MORTGAGE FRAUD??????????????????????
The chief pointed out that if the banks think that chasing fraud artists is a nuisance and a waste of bank officers valuable time.......then there is NO REASON for the cops to worry either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And now you are back to greedy banks and Lazy LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With CRA standing on the sidelines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I recall once hearing a definition of lawyers which ran thusly: "a lawyer is a guy who shuns the fighting- but is quick to rush out onto the battle field after the fighting is over- and the lawyer then energetically bayonets the wounded"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suggest that CRA has a rather legal mind set!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!