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by echelon 1711 days ago
Wire money to the wrong account? The bank will help you fix it. Government banking regulations to the rescue.

Send crypto to the wrong address? Oopsie.

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Which is why we never hear these horror stories about phishing attacks trying to get people to send things to the wrong account.

The fact is that in many, perhaps most cases of theft the Government isn't able to do much more than punish someone they think did the crime, maybe they can recover the assets, just as often those assets are evidence and you don't get them back for years.