And this is where it gets fun. Banks will absolutely not tell the customer that their transaction is flagged for one reason or another partly so that they do not lose their 'safe harbor' status under BSA. Any numbers you will see might be from the government, but FinCEN is relatively tight lipped about those for a variety of reasons. The discussion is taking place now, because it has become fairly onerous on an average person, who sends anything to MOHAMMED HASSAN. Instead of data, I can only offer anecdata. Long long time ( or not long ago depending on your perception of time ), we had a person, whose transaction matched some OFAC info, which resulted in bank holding the transaction. I cannot go into details beyond saying that eventually even OFAC representative seemed to admit to that it does not seem to apply to him. To the best of my knowledge, a year after that person still did not get his funds.
It may have not happened to you, but I do not think it is as uncommon as you think. Parent is right. We are doing this backwards.
Yeah, but those numbers are not reported beyond those parties and for a good reason. That is why I listed FinCEN as a source, because they typically put some data out.. just nothing that could be useful for this discussion.
I suspect a federal open records request could get a count by month. Would need to craft request so it is clearly not going to ask for detailed info. And be ready to sue if they deny the request.
It may have not happened to you, but I do not think it is as uncommon as you think. Parent is right. We are doing this backwards.