[dancingmyrtle]

Hi. I'm popping over from the Guatemala board because my husband has asked for my help. He works for a bank, and he recently has had two instances where managers of other branches have come to him regarding money requests. Apparently since we just brought our daughter home they believe he is the expert on all international adoptions. :-)

At any rate, the reason they contacted him is because they had customers come in and ask for large amounts of cash (upwards of $12K) needed immediately in crisp, new bills, and the customers said they needed it to travel to Russia for an international adoption. I guess it raised some questions, and my husband would like to be able to tell them that there is no cause for alarm, but he doesn't have the knowledge about Russian adoptions to say one way or the other. He also wants to make sure that these people aren't being taken advantage of and that this is reasonable for them to be told they need to take this amount of cash with them.

I'm not trying to get personal here, believe me. Money is a personal topic. I'm just trying to get my husband some answers so that he can lay both the bank's concerns to rest and also so that he can rest assured that these customers are not being taken advantage of. Thank you for any information you can give me!

-Meredith