Duplicate bill payments create unresolvable bank-processor deadlocks
When a bank bill-pay system generates a duplicate payment, the consumer enters a resolution loop where each party - bank, payment processor, and merchant - redirects them to the others. The original payment gets applied while the duplicate reversal leaves accounts frozen with no single party accepting ownership of the fix. Consumers with frozen accounts face continued service disruption despite the error originating from the bank's own system.
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