True it’s easier to change details with the bank than the casino’s. I remember at 21 getting in trouble with debts from loans and credit cards. After my bank had seen gambling transactions on my account, they were immediately, not only unhelpful toward a niave youngster, but almost nasty. Not only were they unwilling to drop charges, which years later turned out to be made, “rule breaking” according to the ombudsman, but weren’t helpful in pointing me in the direction of how to solve the my situation i.e. pointing me in the direction of CAB/ G.A. explaining about credit card shuffles (consolidating debt etc).
I had to learn all about the financial world for and by myself, the hard way. That’s the bad part of gambling, the years wasted treading water, they pass you by in the blink of an eye). I remember needing to open a new bank account (I had to open one up in two weeks for my wages to into to advoid being swallowed by an online loan company using a circular payment) but needed proof of any previous bank accounts, I could only show one with no gambling transactions but they wouldn’t give me a statement they said I had to wait 2months, I could have easily made a false statement using a computer, but didn’t fancy adding fraud to exploits lol. The bank said they could print a statement off for me and send it to my house in 3days but it would cost me a tenner, at the time I was dirt poor not a pot to piss in, no £10 did I have. The only reason I got through it was I had account with a bank from when I was about 8 that my mum had kept for me and forgot about, so had my wages paid into that one.
I suppose what I’m getting at is banks, then and probably still now, can be very similar to casino’s in making life difficult for you at times in many ways. This why despite banks keeping asking me to go paperless with my statements I refuse, because I remember the days when they tried to charge me for my own F*cking information.
How times have changed, even in the last 15years. I remember my 1st job I couldn’t start until I gave in I.D and bank account and national insurance number. I wasn’t chased up about the national insurance number until 4 months of working had passed and my bank account along with my student card was good enough I.D. for the employer( a supermarket chain), lol what a joke. At the time a major bank who I opened my 1st bank account with were willing to accept a library card as I.D. along with my student card and some other rubbish .
When I 1st got my student I.D. and library cards all I had to do to get them was verbally tell them the information lol. The point being back in the day one could of opened a bank account under a false name and ran up huge debts and literally dissappeared, never really have existed.
