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by everfree 2206 days ago
Often it's not reversible in practice, if the destination bank/jurisdiction is not cooperative.

This is why you hear people losing their life savings to scammers in Nigeria, instead of just successfully suing them to get it back.

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Yeah but usually that's not the case. Usually you can get it back.

I would say more often than not it's reversible.