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A Japanese indie developer is seeking legal action over alleged missing funds from a crowdfunding campaign, says the funding platform claims the money was 'mistakenly wired to a different client' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 weeks ago

The plot thickens: transfers can generally be reversed, pulling the money back from a recipient. No reversal was initiated. The crowdfunding platform instead told the dev that they were waiting for the recipient to pay back the money they'd mistakenly received and signed a memo guaranteeing full funding two weeks after the issue first came up. Guess what didn't materialize two weeks after the issue first came up?

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

Under what system? The only easy reversals I'm aware of are credit card chargebacks. Wire transfers generally you can't do anything about once it happens.

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works -4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Look, I just read the articles as they're written and point out the interesting pieces that don't fit in the headline. You got issues with Japan's finance system, that's something you should take up with the author, not the interested fucking reader. Christ on a cracker, hobbyless behavior

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 3 weeks ago

$5 says that the platform used AI to send the funds

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