Don and I are in the process of changing banks. This is very exciting, but also requires a little admin.

At the New Bank I have a transaction account and a “high interest” savings account.

On Saturday I transferred a sizeable chunk of money over from Old Bank and had to verify the transaction via 2FA. I then received a secondary lengthy text listing different scenarios and checking that I had not been scammed into transferring money. Very thorough.

I happened to check my email a little later and had received a “we could not transfer the money and it has been returned to your account” from Old Bank.

Hmmm, I thought. Maybe I can’t transfer straight to savings? And thought nothing of it for a bit.

And a little later still went back and checked the transaction and eventually realised that I was one digit out on the account number. Even though I was certain I’d double checked when setting up the payee^^. *facepalm emoji*

And I am supremely fortunate and eternally thankful that that misplaced digit did not belong to a real account number!

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^^ normally I’d copy/paste, but this was across devices and I taking shortcuts.