The firemen are searching,
The cops are on the beat,
Photographers are looking
Down every city street.
They’ve searched both high and low,
But still no one can see
That wire to EXANTE
From HSBC.

Sadly, I can’t boast about flawless work by Western financial institutions — everybody screws up. One side says the money was sent, the other says we received nothing. And it’s been three weeks now. The money is simply gone. It mysteriously dissolved into thin air.

Thanks to my colleagues for the support, couldn’t do it without you. Learned a new spell: SWIFT MT104. Now all that remains is to wait for a nice evening, gather a good company, lay out a Ouija board, pencils, bank details, and little bells on the table, turn off the lights, and exactly at midnight say loudly three times: “moneyus swiftus findus.” Tap the table with your finger 104 times and under no circumstances look at the correspondent account number before dawn.

They say that if you do it right, somewhere in the depths of the international banking system one compliance officer will quietly shudder — and the lost payment will finally reveal itself to the world.