BB&T Financial Money Transfers Complaint

BB&T Financial Money transfers department,

Domestic (US) money transfer Other transaction issues Virginia

This is pretty simple. Our daughter shared an E-Z Pass account with us, and paid us monthly for her usage. Easiest way to do this was for her to transfer the amount from her credit union account to our bank account, and we both set up our accounts to allow such transfers. ( As an aside, we also pay bills by transferring funds to the power company, the landlord, the phone company, etc., through the same bank checking account. ) What happened was that our daughter transferred $100.00 to pay for her usage, but mistakenly switched the account numbers, so that instead of our account being CREDITED with $100.00, it was DEBITED by that amount! We check our account online regularly, and caught it this morning, and she and our bank have been advised to fix this. HOWEVER, our bank ( BB & T ) insists this is business as usual - once you set up - accounts for funds transfers from - to another, you have given the bank tacit permission to send transfers either way, with no additional approval or permission from you. In other words, if my daughter were malicious ( which she is not ) or in extremis, she could clean our checking account out and we would not even be advised by the bank that it had been done. As it was, we had to make a quick transfer from savings to cover a bill which was going to be paid today. This strikes me as being VERY insecure, and an abrogation of the banks obligation to keep our money safe. They can set up bill payment systems which will either automatically take money from our account monthly to pay our bills, or, if we do n't want that, which allow us to order the funds transferred ourselves for each bill. So why ca n't they safeguard the sort of arrangement we had, where each month a one-way transfer from her account to ours was made? Our bank insists that is not how it is done.