Not to mention when doing large wires with countries that have to do exchanges through a national bank your third party can just forget to accept it. Then you get a wire reversed for a large amount in some cases and the bank freezes your assets because you just got a huge amount of money from some random place. The thin vail of freedom is quickly lifted whenever you want to do anything international from sending money to getting married.

This happened to me when purchasing a house in another country.