“””a Houston woman who had $41,000 in cash seized by CBP at an airport in 2018. The money was earmarked for a children’s hospital in Nigeria.”””
Boy, it’s too bad someone doesn’t invent a thingy where you could go to your bank and then somehow have them send the money to a bank in another country so you would have access to it once you got there.
To be fair, in some countries all that does is result in half or more of the money disappearing.
If you’re dealing with a bank in Western Europe, that’s all well and good. My buddy supports a charity in Kenya, and if he puts too much money in the account, it’s suddenly not there. And nobody knows anything. What do you do then?
My buddy does puts money into an account that the guy over there has ATM access to. He lets him know that X amount is in the account and the guy immediately withdraws through the ATM. That’s the only way to securely transfer money through a foreign bank in some countries.
People in some countries are afraid that a criminal working at the bank will call up his armed confederates and say, we got a guy from America taking out 50 thousand, hurry up and get here.