Comment by agilob
3 years ago
>Just curious, why would you spend days resolving this?
Monzo couldn't reverse the transfer as the money wasn't in their hands. Wise Transfer customer support is just garbage. I spent 5 hours on a phone until > their side < ended my call during UK working hours. I called again and again, they never answered. I sent them emails, but each email I was getting was from another person who, like I said in another comment, didn't read previous email from Wise, so each time I had to explain the context and the whole situation. When I sent my response in a morning, they responded the next day afternoon.
> What was the amount of money here?
About £170 for the conference ticket.
>But yes anyone who has worked with the list of sanctioned persons circulated by the US government understands what a joke this is.
I already paid for hotel and plane tickets without issues. Best to my knowledge I'm not involved in any terrorist organisation, unless you account working for EU banking infrastructure company as such.
OK, so it was more than the price of a ticket involved. I was thinking you went through all this over 170 quid
You're telling me that if I wanted to make an easy 170 quid all I need to do is scam you. You're not going to fight back.
You don't stand up to a bully just for their initial transgression. You stand up to a bully because if you don't they'll come at you again, even harder, and the world will see that you're soft, that you're a mark.
Gimme your lunch money, kid.
Having been scammed once out of a similar amount, yeah of course I'm not going bother. I've got better things to do with my life. Now there are many times when companies did try similar scams and it was resolved with a 15 minute phone call. But there is no way I'd spend days of my life over it. Almost all scams like this are resolved by opening a dispute with my credit card processor. That's it. I get the money back and never hear anything back.