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Friday Fun Thread for June 28, 2024

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What kind of fraud are they envisioning? It's an account for payroll purposes, they put money in, I take it out. God knows the NHS isn't giving me a credit card for expenses.

Trust me, when dealing with the NHS, never attribute to 5D chess/foresight what can be attributed to incompetence. They don't have plenty of reputable international banks that I know operate in the UK and India, so it's hardly that they options like Revolut are unreliable. And if they were, that would be my headache.

For one that you're not the one owning the account.

Having you be physically present in the UK is a feature not a bug. There is zero downside for the NHS, the HMRC or the police to force you to be present.

I am supposed to be owning the account. The NHS just needs a convenient place to send me my pittance, and the international banking system has been together long enough that there should be no interoperability concerns had they chosen a wider array of banks, I'm not asking for them to recognize the North Korean financial system, simply accepted banks that also operate in the UK.

There is plenty of downside for them, given that they'll have to scramble as well to update their records once I have an acceptable bank, and the entire system proclaims itself as being friendly to International Medical Graduates, one aspect being that they might well be internationally located when they're subject to a deluge of paperwork.

Yes, you are supposed to.