Refvolut wants to know what my payments were for (bisq trades)

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Long story short–they locked my account until I could provide documents showing the source of my funds (obviously due to KYC/AML). Sent them some supporting documents but now they also want to know what all these payments were for (they were bisq trades). They ask Would you mind let me know what is the purpose of payments to… and they list out the names of all the people I’ve sent to via Refvolut. I’ve only ever used Rev for bisq buys, I think maybe 10-15 or so over the past years since they were added as payment method. Only small trades, not large amounts or anything.

So I want to ask you guys…

  1. Has anyone else had to do this?
  2. What reason did you give, or what would be a good reason to give them? Obviously not gonna tell them the real reason
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You write “small trades”.
I would at first verify if they are allowed to ask you those questions regarding the amounts involved.

Sometimes, they are not allowed … but they still ask illegal questions.

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I find it strange because I would imagine they’d have more of a reason to investigate if there was money flowing into the account, not out. Feels like this is none of their business

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These companies seem to have these questionnaires as part of their AML.
Both Revolut andN26 have closed accounts of Bisq trades before.

I’m not familiar with either to know if trading bitcoin is against their Terms of Service.

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What a thing! it turns out that your money in a bank is not your money. The bank might let you use it.

I was also planning to use revolut for future bisq trades. But these posts surely discourage me.

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I often mention trading domain names. From a lay person’s point of view it’s not much different from crypto (trading digital goods), but it doesn’t have the bad rep that crypto does!

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Do they ask you to prove your answer? Like asking which domains you’ve traded, or asking for certificates that show you own that domain, etc.?

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… sad to hear such incredible story !
Thanks for the return. Good to know before thinking to open a revolut account.

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Hello, sorry I am new on this Bisq, I want to buy BTC how do I go about it thanks l.

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@Ehismen1010 These two tutorial will help:

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would be great to have some news about how it evolved !
Did you keep saying your traded domain names and provided what they asked for ?

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very informative, thank you