Banks Reject Fraud Disputes on Transactions They Themselves Flagged
A credit union initially flagged a series of transactions as fraudulent and blocked the card, yet later rejected the customer's formal dispute for the same fraudulent merchant, citing an automated authorization check. Customers are left unable to contest the rejection despite the bank's own earlier fraud alert on the identical merchant. This reveals inconsistency between real-time fraud detection and after-the-fact dispute adjudication.
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