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Westpac Bank Systems are Sound...'Yeah Right'
Marie Hazledine-Barber , Picton: Aug 20 2009
Made Popular Aug 20 2009
New Zealand :

Westpac Bank  Systems are Sound...'Yeah Right'

After the debacle of one customer who found $10 million in their account, then left New Zealand with a large portion of the accidental deposit, one found over $9 billion recorded in a account, then learns by the way of National News the worker who had been with the bank for thirty years making one mistake ( the decimal point in the $10.million case) was fired unjustly.

In a supermarket a woman was unable to purchase her groceries (her card declined) puzzled she discovered her account by error of the bank had been overdrawn by approx $1 million, so had to wait for days without her goods whilst the bank fixed things.

Westpak announces to the Nation their processes are all in place and there is nothing wrong with their system.

But wait there is more!!! A few days ago the recent discovery is over 3000 customers Westpac Credit Cards have been double dipped by the bank. So if one bought $50 of fuel, the bank deducted $100 from the persons credit card. That’s the tip of the iceberg.

Apart from mistakes in automatic payments penalizing the customer for example $85 dollars of failed fees out of $100 pay. Due to a simple customer error unaware, no notification for month on discovery simply told look at internet. Not all look at internet. It appears with Westpac the attitude is like ” if you buy a car, then learn to be a mechanic”

Negligence, greed , stupidty Westpac has a lot of simple learning to do. Go back to basics and service, it is a disgrace and it is your money. Perhaps people should use banks as little as possible and deal with cash instead.

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Prabhunarayan
Pondicherry, India
lol! That's so funny. ask the bank to recruit people with commerce background and get their computers checked..
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Perhaps we need the skill in the computer world of your country men.
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Chad
Kansas City, United States
Hey Marie! Liked the header of your article. Cool
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Thankyou, one tries to be creative.Great to have input.
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Bob
Christchurch, New Zealand
This problem is replicated throughout the financial systems.

Bank staff in NZ were given bonuses for ”selling” more credit to clients.

When you can see previously ”bailed out” financial institutions in the USA now offering their management huge hand-outs surely it shows systemic failures all around.

Society has totally lost its way and the financial systems like Westpac show just how much so.

There is no accountability any more and few who will take responsibility when ”everything turns to custard”.

Meantime those purely thinking of self become the norm. Sad indeed!
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