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mindslightyesterday at 3:07 PM1 replyview on HN

I am pretty sure I was bitten by this bug, or a similar bug, on an IRA transfer form that I uploaded to a bank. On the scan that I uploaded, one digit in the account number was a clean "5", but the customer service person said it looked like a good clean "6". I presume their document management system was an outcropping of a system originally set up for dealing with faxes, and used that or a similar compression algorithm.


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21asdffdsa12yesterday at 3:21 PM

Thus - one could assume that all transfers stored by the bank- before the update would not hold up in court.

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