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by jackyinger 129 days ago
While we’re at it let’s get rid of wire transfers, and transactions by bank id / account number. Something more fool proof and transparent is far overdue.
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> let’s get rid of wire transfers, and transactions by bank id / account number

You can’t sent a Fedwire with only account number [1]. And this woman wasn’t shot because of wires, the man was told to hand over hard cash.

[1] https://onrr.gov/document/fedwire.pdf