The cost to overdraw a bank account could drop to as little as $3 under a proposal announced by the White House, the latest effort by the Biden administration to combat fees it says pose an unnecessary burden on American consumers, particularly those living paycheck to paycheck.
The change could potentially eliminate billions of dollars in fee revenue for the nation’s biggest banks, which were gearing up for a battle even before Wednesday’s announcement. Exactly how much revenue depends on which version of the new regulation is adopted.
Banks charge a customer an overdraft fee if their bank account balance falls below zero. Overdraft started as a courtesy offered to some customers when paper checks used to take days to clear, but proliferated thanks to the growing popularity of debit cards.
I’ve gotten those calls a few times from BoA. But it’s always like 2 days after. And it’s not necesarily big purchases. I’ve gotten a TV and been fine. But I got Minecraft when that first came out, and got a call for that. One time I got a call for getting lunch at a fast food place. And these are so far and few in between that they don’t really make me feel safe. It’s more so just annoying.
I honestly think it has to do with patterns and profiling. The credit transaction processing “data warehouse” middleman has a all the metadata needed to pull this off - so behaviors like fraud can be correlated across many banks and accounts.
In my case, it was the biggest buy I had made on that card to date. Or maybe that store already had fraud problems on record.
That actually would make a lot more sense for Minecraft then. Lol