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> To everyone: If you wrongly send money to a mistyped IBAN it is gone.

You clearly have no idea how an IBAN works. It has a checksum exactly to avoid mistyping.

And even if you send the money to an valid, but wrong, IBAN then one of two things happens:

* The account doesn't exist -> transaction bounces * The account does exist -> ask for money back, worst case go to court to recover it

But the money is not gone. There are no black holes just swallowing everything up.



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