Financial Accounts Permanently Locked After Institutional Email Is Deleted
Consumers who used institutional email addresses (school, employer) for financial account registration find those accounts permanently locked when the email is deleted upon leaving the institution. Account recovery processes cannot re-verify identity when the email on file no longer exists. Financial institutions lack robust alternative identity verification pathways for this predictable email lifecycle scenario.
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