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Board India
Re: Lending your bank account and it's consequences!
by
Parvati_j
on 18/02/2025, 20:26:37 UTC
In our country, it is a very common practice among friends, family members and relatives to lend our bank account to receive their money in our accounts and let them withdraw with ATM cards. Which is the issue I wanna address today after reading a bank freeze story on other platform.

People involved in p2p trading know the risks of bank freezes which often happens due to receiving funds linked with an illegal/unauthorized transfer from someone's bank account so months after we done trades just on a random day our bank accounts, credit/debit cards, internet banking will be inaccessible and when we contact the branch their response will be cyber crime ordered them to. Once we are at this stage it almost 99% that there's no going back and since we can't identify who send the funds so the primary suspect will be us to avoid being in the situation we should avoid trading p2p especially when they offer 12% or 20% over the market rate.

Now coming back to the topic, there are chances that someone can take advantage of their ignorance and trade couple of times and withdraw their money immediately but after months they will receive bank freeze and all their money will be under hold indefinitely so we should create awareness about this among our friends and family circle about not lending our bank accounts to anyone and even by the bank terms it's solely for personal usage and all the legal liability comes under the responsibility of the account owner alone.

Op thank you for this information, but its a shame how someone you know and helped with your bank could do such evil to you after showing him kindness. Sometimes it's good to play the wicked friend to safe guard you life and property than trying to be too generous which may lead you to problems. Well I have learnt enough from this thread i have give out my account in previous times to friends to receive money, but I think that ends today so I dont get into trouble.