On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:54 AM, ianG <i...@iang.org> wrote: >> ... > > Banks will say that international wires are irreversible, but it isn't true. > If the banks cooperate they can do a return of funds. It all depends... > This was kind of interesting: "According to Li, the larger problem [of Chinese car theft fraud] is the Chinese financial system, which requires every bank-to-bank transaction to be routed through the central government’s banking authority. As a result, anti-fraud measures are usually slower than criminals. Stopping a payment could take as long as three days, by which time the money is usually unrecoverable." http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/24/4549124/how-google-uncovered-a-chinese-ring-of-car-thieves.
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