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Originally Posted by Sly
Why?
A few years ago online poker in the United States was more or less shut down. Not completely due to gambling, but due to wire fraud. The poker site owners were in cahoots with banks, in the United States, committing a broad range of acts that amount to wire fraud. In short, the banks were paid off to look the other way when illegal acts were taking place. Again, this was in the United States, not some third world post-Soviet state.
Why on earth should Bank XYZ believe anything Bank ABC says in a completely different country? Do you want your local bank taking a local bank in Russia for its word?
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My corporation has been in business with the same bank since 1999. If I decide to go rogue at this point, what is the difference whether or not some shmoe in the Netherlands has a copy of my passport on file or not?