thank you. I’m just panicky over the situation as it was pretty much my whole balance but since that’s frozen I’ve only got my the bit in my monzo so I’ll probably ask the people to print out a statement for me which will show a withdrawal on the same day from same surname and matching the account I originally transferred too and see if that helps speed up the process
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Not Split in Croatia? Well I never!
While I’m replying…
Are you Revels and Becky as well as Sasha?
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You’ll never know 
after all revels are my favourite chocolates 
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Kinky.
Please can you leave my chocolate balls out of this.
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None of what you described sounds like you were victimised.
You were taken to one side and you had a discussion in private about their concerns. If it’s all legitimate it will take you 2 seconds to satisfy their requirements and you’ll be on your way. As others have said its perfectly normal given the situation.
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It seems perfectly reasoable to question it to me. Most people would just do a bank transfer instead of having all the risk and hassle of dealing with cash.
Not exactly true.
I won’t go into great details, but suffice to say because of past circumstances my partner has access to nearly £20,000 in ready cash, and I promise you she is neither a tradesperson or a drug dealer 
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I’ll admit, I don’t like the idea of her having such a large amount of cash lying around (although it is kept very secure) but past events mean that there’s no way I can convince her otherwise.
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As others have said, it sounds like nothing more than a bank doing it’s due diligence on the money being deposited. They don’t have a choice about that, as far as I understand things, it simply has to be done.
We once lost a house sale because our purchaser’s answer to “Where did the funds come from?” didn’t come with enough proof. (The answer was, apparently, “Iran”.)
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Theirs quite a lot of people who are old fashioned and don’t trust banks so I assume this is pretty common.
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I once took £8k of savings out of my account to buy something. The deal fell through so I went to put it back into the same account. I was still questioned on it’s source 
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Your dealer got busted on his way to meet you?
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Did they not questioned you more about trying to withdraw it rather than putting it in though? Especially with all these scams?
I hope you said “it’s your 8k. Do you want to check the serial numbers? I’ll wait.” 
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Was it a very large volume of gas?
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Hahaha I’d need a whole bank of tanks to store that much gas. Then @Revels would definitely hunt me down to explode them 
It was a very long time ago. It was when I was buying a car and cash was king.
I’d estimate about 9 years ago. Maybe a few years more?
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Yes the exact same thing happened to my Mum, she’s 85 years old took 600 quid out of her bank the week before to put into my sons account for a deposit. All good, went in the following to take cash out (she doesn’t use ATM’s doesn’t trust them) and was told her account had been blocked. Taken into a side room and asked all sorts of security questions, she was confused and little shocked. Account unblocked and she withdrew her 100 quid. The weird thing is she’s used her card as debit card for various bits. This was Lloyds
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