Bank Claims Refund Was Issued Before Cancellation Date, Withholding Funds
Bank of America withheld funds from a customer's balance by claiming a refund was issued three days before the cancellation that triggered it — a temporal impossibility. The customer has no way to dispute the internal data error.
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