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Piecemeal Funds Transfer In the land of TV and movies, all
electronic funds transfer systems work by transferring the money
a little bit at a time.  We know this because while the transfer
is in progress, you can clearly see a Viewer-Friendly Interface
displaying the amount of money, which starts at zero and quickly
increases. This is apparently because the money is being
stuffed, one dollar bill at at time, through the connection.  In
reality, a form of fraud known as salami slicing or penny
shaving exists. Often using rounding errors to steal substantial
amounts of cash, often a cent at a time. Of course, the goal is
to steal the cash so slowly that nobody notices. If you're going
to steal a whole load of cash in the time frame of the following
examples, then you may as well just steal it all in one
transaction rather than slicing it up into tens of thousands of
microtransactions. (Unless it's being directed at multiple
accounts, though obviousl