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Comment by KellyCriterion

Some years ago I had to execute an international money transfer by SWIFT to someone in South America from our European bank:

Unfortunately, I did a copy & paste error by reusing the prior version and not overwriting all the data - I forgot to replace the bank account number, but name & co was OK.

The money didnt arrive, customer was getting angrier and angrier. Esp. since this transaction was related to crypto and back then was one of first BTC highflyertimes.

A couple of days later I received a message from the bank, asking for having a quick call. In the meantime, they had called the customer to investigate even more.

Quickly we found out that it was just my mistake by copying & re-using the form. I sent them a SWIFT message confirming what was discussed and that the right account number is indeed 123 instead of 678.

In the end, all of us were happy, even with a little delay.

Im 100% sure that this type of cooperation would never work on any of these crypto stacks :-))

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