this is  unbelievable ,last week because I damaged my Bangkok debt /visa card and had left my Bangkok bank passbook in Bangkok , I DECIDED TO PUT SOME MONEY FROM MY Australian BANK into my friends bank account last Thursday,  as I had done this many times before with out a problem , on Monday I received an email from my bank stating that her Bangkok bank wanted to know what the money was for , I explained why as I am in ban back dong, Kun Han Sisakat and my Bangkok debt /visa card was damaged I would have to return to Phuket to get a new card issues , as no other Bangkok bank would issue me a new one. So I was putting money in her account so she could give it to me . Thinking this was  a reasonable answer , they rejected my deposit to her account , has anyone had this happen to them .IT WAS ONLY $400 DOLLARS .

 

 

Ah, you told the truth, always an error when dealing with bank bureaucracy.

 

Gift, living expenses or something of the like would be fine, you probably just made the reasoning too complex.

 

It's only in the last year or so that the receiving banks in Thailand have required a reason for the transfer, mine are always "living expenses" never an issue.

 

Don't know specifics about Australia and it's so long that I transferred money from Germany to Thailand.

But the form to be used always contained a "purpose" field.

I think that was required for all transfers out of the Euro currency zone?

Nothing exceptional.

As Crossy writes "present", "support for living expenses"...

 

Quite misplaced in Isaan forum.

Moved to banking... forum.