The following message was on a credit card statement I received today. I don’t recall ever seeing something like this before. Have you?
The following message was on a credit card statement I received today. I don’t recall ever seeing something like this before. Have you?
I am guessing it’s the fact that TD operates in the US as well as Canada. They have to comply with all the endless US redtape and the Canadian parts of the company have to comply as well.
You should see that message on software… lot more countries can’t buy American software, so I assume they just have to pirate it like many other users?
Air Miles have become a weapon of mass disruption…
Robert,
Just checking but did you send me something that rhymes with “learner”?
I am just surprised the notification did not come out earlier.
What decent person would want to go to those countries anyway?
Typical. Now what’s my roommate Omar going to use to buy things when he takes his annual holiday in North Korea and then Iran?
As for Iran, it isn’t only the USA that can be labeled “boogieman” here, most international banking contact with them is now really difficult, hence their willingness / desire to trade oil for gold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iran
And North Korea… how could anyone collect a debt there?
What? My vacation to North Korea is in jeopardy! And those hand crafted collectables from Iran.
This is terrible. Long have the progressives had their soothing tongue caressing the social injustice sores on the rectum of Syria, Iran, and North Korea. This calls for social climate justice.
Cash.
Then barter.
what about Nigeria?
For a clue … try to remember the names of the countries mentioned …. and their recent history.
Farkin leibsh!t troll………
Ah, TD Visa, the stories I could tell ….
The spark plug for one of the funniest,
most insulting letters I ever wrote to a
commercial entity.
TD recently bought MBNA’s accounts. This paragraph has been on MBNA’s statements for years.
Ackmydinnerjacket will certainly cease his nuke program out of fear of those 2 old dudes in the TD commercials….
Sanctions will only work if that’s the name of a new steatlh bomber.
Don’t know this as a fact, though would wage a coin to bet that the North Korea would question your money if you showed them plastic.
Could end in jail, for trying to fool them.
Wait… North Korea is capable of accepting credit cards?
My Visa with another bank doesn’t say this on the statements.
This probably has more to do with the American gov’t than TD.
A related story…Four years ago I was traveling to Cuba to flyfish for bonefish and tarpon. We booked the lodge through an agent in the UK. They wanted a deposit cheque so I sent them one from my ATB account. The company’s name had “Cuba” in it, although the address was in London, England. AHA! International ATB cheques are cleared through a bank in Chicago. The bastards stamped it as illegal because of the US embargo and it was returned to ATB’s head office in Calgary and I was notified a few weeks later…almost missing a booking deadline.
But now it gets better. Some of my fishing buds are ex TD execs and one said to me back then, “Why not deal at a REAL bank.” HA HA. Now I can show him this. ☺
I’ve been to Iran many times on business, apart from the government it is quite a nice place.
And I would very much like to visit Burma, Syria, and Cuba.
Why do so many seem totally uninterested in seeing & learning something about the world?
The banks should not enforce these kind of political embargoes/sanctions (even if often well intended).
(Not to mention that too close a cooperation between state & big business (and big union) may lead to …)
I worked for a Internet Service Provider in which we had to institute a block to ensure that traffic from our network (which all originated from the United States) could not connect to those same 6 countries because a lawyer had interpreted the EAR restrictions in include our customer’s traffic.
I love to tell people who support communist regimes like the one in Cuba to stay there, the freedom loving people of Canada have had enough of Turdoghs, and his BFF’s like Qaddafi and Fidel.
I still wonder who rigged the vote in Justin’s riding, isn’t he the son who claimed his ‘UNCLE’ FIDEL was a mountain of a man?