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Old 08-17-2021, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by richs631 View Post
Be super careful with a wire transfer.. don’t accept wire transfer instructions over the phone or from unknown or strange emails
Good advice. Our banker asked us from where we received the wire information. He specifically asked if it was emailed to us. It wasn’t, but he did say that it is a rising trend, wire transfer fraud.
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