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I just had some fraudulent withdrawals on my bank account pretending to be paypal. They did the two sub-$1 authorization transactions, then took out $400 then "reversed" it by putting it back into my account... maybe to attract less suspicion and execute a larger fraud later?? Anyway, my bank reversed the withdrawals and I just got to keep the $400 the scammers deposited in.

Was that just the bank refunding you?

Most of these scammers are abroad (India, Africa, Eastern Europe), which is why these crimes are next to impossible to prosecute.

I thought wire fraud was extra-territorial. Didn't they get SBF that way?

The FBI doesn’t measure economic activity, they measure crime.