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To: RealMuLan who wrote (53287)	7/12/2006 2:10:32 PM
From: 8bits	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

"While we laughed at him that he trusted the Citibank more than BoC, still this is a horrible experience on his part. I bet whoever doing the business in those type of marked nations would register the incident and smart ones should switch their account away from the US banks." A friend of mine was outsourcing some programming work to the Ukraine and therefore routinely sending money to Kiev. He also got a pleasant call from our fearless leaders. Luckily they didn't freeze his accounts however they indicated they could easily enough if they found anything they didn't like. He is no longer in the US nor is he using US banks.