Bank employees deny service using fabricated policies targeting foreign names
Consumers with multi-part or culturally distinct names are denied banking services by branch employees who invent technical limitations—like name-length restrictions—that do not exist in the bank's systems. Corporate confirms the policy is fabricated, but customers face a closed loop: branch staff gatekeep access while headquarters provides no enforcement mechanism.
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