Re:“I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code”
by gandalfian on Saturday December 07, 2019 @06:06PM
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Actually if a large amount turns up in your account I wouldn't give it back or touch it at all. That's how you end up enmeshed in scams and money laundering. Insist others sort it out properly. Whether the person tried to spend the mistaken money is really speculative gossip, we don't really know.
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Re:“I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code”
by netsharc on Sunday December 08, 2019 @06:21AM
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Could that be done? With all the cheque scams, I'm guessing yes: someone cashes a bad cheque into your account, suddenly it says you have, say, 10K more money, and then you get a phone call from a "lawyer" claiming please return the money to some other account. You do so, and then the bank tells you the cheque didn't clear, they're taking 10K away from your account...
If a crypto (or other digital) currency has reversible transactions ("Undo this transaction and all the after effects"), that would be cool. So if I spent that 10K on a new Mac, after the Undo I'd have the Mac and a huge unpaid bill from the Apple Store...
Re:“I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code”
by ketamine__ on Saturday December 07, 2019 @10:48PM
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We de know because the article said that they withdrew the money. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
Re:“I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code”
by gandalfian on Monday December 09, 2019 @11:58AM
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I do not have evidence to the contrary. But a journalist carefully saying it is the opinion of the aggrieved party that the other person was an outright villain does not make it so. It could be true, it could be a mistake or somewhere in the middle. I don't think we will ever know.