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.
This behaviour of lending or sharing our account with friends or family members or relatives, should be totally be unacceptable, no matter how close they are to us. not just the acceptance of someone trading P2P with our accounts. But even in other terms of transactions we should avoid lending our accounts to them for transactions. Bank account should be for a single entity and should be personal to us, because whenever good or criminal transactions are made with our accounts we will be the one to be hold responsible even though the criminal actions were not committed by us. Because they are so many risk been attached to it, so we should be careful and mindful on how we handled our personal accounts for some transactions.