Morrisman
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Another facet of the old ‘it takes 3 days to send a wire transfer, sir’ scam.A pound beloved does 22p
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It turns out that money sent after 7pm will not be received until the next working day. For god knows what reason, but his bank told him that next day.
Overnight money market
I recall some 30 years ago, I was in the Philippines, on my month break from the oil fields, and had arranged a $3000 money wire from Singapore, so I had to go into Manila to collect it. After a big night in the Mabini bar scene I took a taxi to the bank, somehow arriving with what amounted to just 20 pence left in my pocket.
I’d sent money several times in the past, so into the bank, asked at the counter for the money…. and the girl tells me ‘sorry sir, it hasn’t arrived yet’. I ask where it is, and that I had it sent 3 days earlier. She sort of waved her hand in the air, like an airplane, or telex…. ‘it takes a while to come, sir, take a seat we will call you when it arrive’. So I sat, and sweated, and worried, and had a few mini panic attacks….
20 minutes later she calls me over, a minute past midday, my money had just arrived.
God only knows what I would have done were it lost, or some mistake had been made. I’d probably have ended up starring in one of those ‘Banged up abroad’ episodes.