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I worked as a teller in a partner bank. As far as the paying procedures go, the only thing I needed to check it's the recipients name. I couldn't pay a "John D
by ucy 10y ago
I worked as a teller in a partner bank.
As far as the paying procedures go, the only thing I needed to check it's the recipients name. I couldn't pay a "John Doe" wire to a "Joseph Doe".
I also had a customer that sent a wire to a Cuban citizen / South American resident. The payment was rejected because of some US embargo against Cuba.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago> As far as the paying procedures go, the only thing I needed to check it's the recipients name. I couldn't pay a "John Doe" wire to a "Joseph Doe". Reminds me of a story my SO told me once. For some reason I can't recall now her company was to get some money via Western Union. She was supposed to pick it up, but the sender refused because she had a polish character ("ł") in her surname and they believed that WU won't be able to handle such transfer. For that reason, the company had to send someone else to pick up the transfer.
- ucy 10y agoThe recipient name was always in "ALL-CAPS". I think they couldn't handle even ascii, maybe they use some telegraph era codepage. Also, for what I remember, you can't send a wire to a company via WU. The recipient must always be a person.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoI might ask SO for the details again, but yeah - that's how I understand why they wanted a particular employee to be the recipient of the transfer.