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From: gunda@cbmehq.UUCP (Gunda O'Neal ESCO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shareware in Europe
Message-ID: <2204@cbmehq.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 90 13:10:18 GMT
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In article <90326.090124UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes:
>Can a person in Europe open a bank account in a US bank?  Then, just save
>up all those North American checks that come in, send a bundle of them
>to the bac kin the US (hey, why not Costa Rica?) and watch the $$$ mount
>up.
My experience:
Having an address in e.g. Germany, one can not open a bank account in a
U.S. bank inside U.S.A.
But one could try (!) with a e.g. German sub of an U.S. based bank.
Most helpful: American Express Bank (if you are a holder of their plastic).


>
>   lee


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