What can expats do if their Bangkok Bank accounts are frozen and remain inaccessible?

@Richard ******************

They now ask you to actually get your visa renewed, like if you leave the country when your visa is over, they will block your account and you have to prove that you got a new one, which is not dictated by Thai law, or by their vague and abusive terms and conditions.

I am pretty sure they are doing this only because they know the foreigners whose accounts have been frozen won’t bother to make a legal complaint.

The fact that they are the only bank doing this shows what a bunch of tools they are. Kbank only asked me 4 months in advance to get a phone number registered in my name and visit the branch. I came back to Thailand on a visa exemption and went there with the AIS receipt. They took my passpoet and receipt, amd later told me I can keep using the mobile app.

Leaving thousands of people who commited no crime without access to their money is an abuse that only a cretinous person could justify. My hope is that expats realize this and teach them a lesson by moving their money to other banks

@Jordan ****

it really is quite buzzard, even by Thai ways of doing things. I have nit had to renew my visa but am still waiting. I was assured a decision would be reached by yesterday.

@Colin *********

Ah that’s me. On 16 July, BB unlocked my BB app same day after 5pm. But on 19 Aug, BB locked my BB account and app. Went to the BB branch where I first opened the account on 25 Aug to submit my documents again and after 6hrs in the queue, they told me it would unlock in 7-10 days.

@Chris ****

cheers, just example one 👍