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A few days after posting Getting lethal with things, I did follow my own advice. I had written Getting lethal after a petty bank transfer of 186€ from my account with online bank A to my account with online bank B. Bank A sent the money straight away. Bank B received the money within seconds and withheld the funds because the 3 words I used for my own reference were perceived as suspect by some stupid filter. This I learned from an automated email I received a few minutes after the transfer. The first word was a first name, the second word was solar, the third word was the German word for installation. The filter had associated the first name as potentially a "vessel" and I was asked to provide either the full birth record of the named person, or the details of the company I was referring to, or the full records regarding the ship in question. I was also asked further questions about the two other words. Clearly a case of utterly stupid coding or prompting. I needed the funds on the…

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