True - but if the scammed folks then complain to the bank - makes sense why suddenly they'd want to take a look at what Intersango is doing and cause this review. Doubt this is the only instance that this has been done with
Sorry to hear these news. It's a variant of a familiar scam which've been played out numerous times on many exchanges and fixed rate sellers. The thing is that bitcoin is irreversible, so as long as a scammer somehow can fund an account at an exchange, they can withdraw bitcoins.
I guess most exchanges already have safeguards in place, or know how to deal with this. As for Intersango... who knows ?
How does gox deal with this kind of thing ? Is there some strategy in place in the US banks to verify the id of all depositors or can anyone fund an account belonging to a drug dealer ?