Creeps in Australia have given away money in order to harass people with abusive transaction descriptions that appear in online banking records.
Australia’s Commonwealth Bank (CBA) revealed the practice today after finding over 8,000 customers had received such messages.
“After noticing disturbing messages in the account of a customer experiencing domestic and family violence, we conducted analysis to better understand the problem,” said Catherine Fitzpatrick, the bank’s general manager of community and customer vulnerability. “We were horrified by both the scale and the nature of what we found.”
“In a three month period, we identified more than 8,000 CBA customers who received multiple low-value deposits, often less than $1, with potentially abusive messages in the transaction descriptions – in effect using them as a messaging service. All genders were sending and receiving these messages, but the nature ranged from fairly innocuous ‘jokes’ using profanities to serious threats and ..
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