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		calmbell 67 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed... And transferring money from a bank or brokerage account takes time. Enough time that anyone paying attention should be able to report the transfer as fraudulent before it completes and have the account frozen.

dist-epoch 67 days ago [–]

It depends. In UK a transfer is instant. In most of EU it happens the same day, many times in hours.

zoover2020 67 days ago | [–]

EU is mostly instant too,IBAN at least.

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