Equally bizarre, the Providence Journal reports that a retired Rhode Island schoolteacher's attempt to pay off a credit card was held up because the transaction did not fit his usual pattern and therefore raised a red flag.

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If you got a bonus or sold a house and deposited the proceeds, the bank would flag the transaction as out of your normal pattern of banking, and you might have to answer questions from federal authorities.

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