Bank fraud systems approve out-of-state charges then deny claims when customer was elsewhere
Banks approve transactions occurring in a different state from where the customer is physically located, then deny fraud claims for those same transactions by citing the approval. The core failure is that location data used to approve transactions in real time is not shared with the claims investigation team. Customers are denied protection for exactly the type of suspicious activity their bank's own system initially flagged as normal.
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