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He sent his rent via e-transfer, but got one digit wrong. Now the bank says all he can do is ‘hope for the best’​


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After multiple attempts to retrieve the $1,020 transfer, Het Shah was blocked by the recipient.
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He worked hard all month to pay his rent, only to see his hard earned dollars vanish with the mistaken click of a button. That’s the nightmare one Ontario man, Het Shah, is living after sending his rent money to the wrong e-transfer number.
On Thursday, Shah accidentally hit “5” on his keypad instead of “8” while inputting the recipient number during a routine Interac money transfer – a typo that proved to be the most expensive of his life.

Source: He sent his rent via e-transfer, but got one digit wrong. Now the bank says all he can do is ‘hope for the best’
 
A caution to all members that using the mobile number instead of email can be quite a bit more risky.

If one digit is wrong the e-transfer will go to the person whose phone number is registered but if you use an email address instead a one character mistake will usually result in a bounce and the e-transfer will come back to you.

Therefore it is safer to send e-transfers to an email address instead of a phone number. I have experience with this and it took me repeatedly warning my family until everyone was using email instead of a phone number to send/receive e-transfers.
 
Just more proof that Canada is now chock full of gypsies, tramps and thieves - Canada used to be a place where if you dropped a wallet on the street, someone would pick it up and run after you to give it back. Now if you drop a wallet, the people on the street are fighting over who gets to steal it.

I know if someone mistakenly sent money to my phone number, I would delete the message and advise the sender that the money will soon be returned to his or her bank account. So would any true Canadian.

But we seem to be a dying breed.
 

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