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by fragmede 725 days ago
Sometimes they are. There's a network of seedy international banks that scammers use to take their victims money, because otherwise the scam wouldn't work.
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Do you have examples? People can avoid them
The scammers wire the money out of your account into a bank account they control, and then put it in another bank, and then move it further on from there. Knowing which bank they have their account at doesn't help you avoid the problem.
Yeah I understood the mechanism, just wanted to know the companies that enable such things.