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Hello! I am new here and would first like to apologize for this being my first post, however, this is the first time I have seen this forum.

Anyway, I have a question for everyone here about my bitinstant transfer. I had made a transfer of BTC to a mtgox account on accident. The account I had place in the spot for account was a long BTC wallet address and not the short numbers only account for mtgox. I was wondering if anyone can tell me if this will error or go ahead and send the BTC somewhere else.

I would also like to say that this was purely accidental. Bitinstant has changed a few different times in the past few weeks. I do have my quote-ID and proof that I paid for the service. If anyone could help me perhaps get those BTC into the wallet that was intended and not a non existent mtgox account, I would be very grateful and would be willing to give anyone that can help me get my BTC back 1 BTC for the help.

Thanks in advance and again, I am sorry for this being my first post.

Post the order ID in this thread here and they will help you:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128314.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128314.0)

Hey,

No worries, post your order info here or PM me right away and we will get it resolved

Thanks

Charlie

This is only marginally related, but MtGox should add a few digits to each account number representing a checksum... for example the last 4 decimal digits of the SHA256 hash of their fully-decorated MtGox account number (as it would be required in the notes of a wire transfer).  And then always validate it with incoming transfers, if nothing else, to prod them to ask questions before any chance of posting it to the wrong account.

This way, the odds of submitting the account number "2" and having it be a valid account number by accident would be greatly reduced.

They already do that, and we mostly implemented it, but then all account numbers people think they know would fail.

Thanks for the speedy replies. Yankee I have sent you a message.

I look forward to sticking around. Seems like a very very nice forum.

Hey, no worries.

I got your PM and your funds are being rerouted now.

You should see the coins within a few hours.

Thanks

In MtGox defense one would think that BANK ACCOUNTS would have a checksum but they don't.  Who knows how many countless hours are lost resolving banking issues due to the fact that it is completely impossible to validate if an account number is valid (at least in the US).