Around 2007-2009, Germany had fairly expensive SMS on mobile plans, but bank transfers within Germany were usually free, and Swift transfers allowed like 200+ c

Around 2007-2009, Germany had fairly expensive SMS on mobile plans, but bank transfers within Germany were usually free, and Swift transfers allowed like 200+ characters of text. Me and some friends knew each other's bank account numbers due to shared orders and stuff, so we would send each some joke amounts typically smaller than 20 cents just for the cool messaging medium.