Many decades ago I transfered my money from the USA to Europe. Nothinf much but I didn't want to cross borders with wads of cash even though it's perfectly legal.
I had to give my origin bank everything imaginable, including address, phone, fax of both the destination bank as well as the branch.
All of my ID obviously and the destination account number.
Weeks later I get a message from my destination branch saying they got some money in USD for someone that had a subset of my name but no account information whatsoever.
I said it was for me and thankfully that was it.
What happened?
Eventually I got something that looked like a traceroute of the transfer.
The origin bank used Citibank as an intermediary and at that step everything but the amount, name of the destination bank and my first and last name was lost.
I had to give my origin bank everything imaginable, including address, phone, fax of both the destination bank as well as the branch.
All of my ID obviously and the destination account number.
Weeks later I get a message from my destination branch saying they got some money in USD for someone that had a subset of my name but no account information whatsoever.
I said it was for me and thankfully that was it.
What happened?
Eventually I got something that looked like a traceroute of the transfer.
The origin bank used Citibank as an intermediary and at that step everything but the amount, name of the destination bank and my first and last name was lost.
Completely obliterated.
Never trusted them ever since.