Re: GIMP donation

[Mike Saunders <mike linuxvoice com>]

Hi Rosanna,

Thanks for that -- I'll chase it up with our own bank, and when we've 
confirmed that the money has been returned to us, we'll use a different 
method to donate to GIMP.

--
Mike Saunders
Linux Voice magazine
http://www.linuxvoice.com


On 2015-05-27 18:37, Rosanna Yuen wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> When our account was closed with Citizens Bank, our ties with the bank
> were severed.  As we neither own the account nor sent the funds, it is
> unlikely either bank will be willing to give us information about your
> wire transfer.  If you contact your bank you should be able to
> initiate a trace on the wire and see where it went.  I am unfamiliar
> with Northern Trust but a trace would tell you if they were affiliated
> with your transfer.
>
> Thanks,
> Rosanna
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova
> <kittykat3756 gmail com> wrote:
>
> > On 27 May 2015 at 17:02, Mike Saunders <mike linuxvoice com> wrote:
> > > On 2015-05-27 17:58, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
> > > > Those instructions are wrong, I have contacted someone at GIMP
> > asking
> > > > them to update the details for the donations.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks. Can you find out if the money was accepted? We've never
> > heard of
> > > Northern Trust either, but if if now owns the Citizens Bank
> > account listed
> > > for the GNOME Foundation on GIMP's donation page, that may
> > explain why £300
> > > has come back to us...
> >
> > We'll do our best to find out as quickly as possible, although the
> > process tends to be very slow from what I have seen previously.
> > That
> > account is actually long since closed so in the best case the money
> > that you received was those funds being returned. In the worst case
> > the account has been reopened and we need to extract the funds from
> > it, which would take about a month or so.
> >
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