[quantumwoke]

Nowhere in this blog does it mention what the business actually does, which is always a red flag. I've seen plenty of stripe bashing posts on HN that end up with the business being in newsletter scams or adult content.

[spelk]

If you've ever dealt with financial institutions in a meaningful way, you'd know that the self-service variety, or the HSBC variety, will create hurdles and enforce policies arbitrarily with no recourse, care or concern for your well-being.

[jemmyw]

Looking around it seems its a small ISP / IT consultancy. It doesn't look to be anything shady at all.

[quantumwoke]

ISPs that host illegal content can indeed be outside the risk tolerance of a financial services company. The blog post is very careful to say "one of our companies" and censor the name of it on screenshots so I'll be interested to see what it is.

[EdwardDiego]

Based on the DNS records, and the Companies Office website, the blogger owns several companies.

https://www.vetta.online/

https://aorangieftpos.nz/

https://www.reliance.net.nz/

Business networking, local ISP, card payment solutions, basically. Given the blog posts about cPanel and Outlook, it tracks.

I note that the blogger lives in a small town in the South Island, so likely is focused on the local market.

[quantumwoke]

Possibly. Would be better if the company name wasn't obscured from the post.

[martimarkov]

Oh no… god forbid - adult content lol. Yes regardless of the content if the business is legal and they only changed an address that’s not a reason to have this level of shit support and no way to escalate and contact a human…

[quantumwoke]

I don't agree with those policies but it's a possible reason for a financial services business to break a relationship if they discover incidentally that this guys business is breaking the law. Changes the blog post completely and the business info should have been included.

As a heuristic, using TransferWise is traditionally associated with Russian money laundering scams.