Banks deduct undisclosed fees from rejected wire transfers
When an incoming wire transfer is rejected and returned to the sender, the returned amount is sometimes reduced by an undisclosed fee that does not appear in any published fee schedule. Customers must escalate internally within the bank to even get an acknowledgment that a deduction occurred.
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