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First home buyer loses $50,000 deposit weeks before ING Bank rolled out new rule to prevent it
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A few unlucky factors meant Lewis accidentally sent his house deposit to the wrong bank account.
About 24 hours later he went to send the rest of the deposit from another bank account with ANZ.
"They knew all the details of when it was happening ... and even though I was very cautious, I was just cautious to get the [bank account] details right."
"So it's kind of annoying that if it was six months later, it wouldn't have happened.
The incident occurred in August with ING confirming to Yahoo Finance the bank began implementing the security feature just weeks later in October last year.