Reporting Amount

We received a $4,500 wire from individual A at institution Y, to our customer individual A. Individual A then wired $4,500 from their account at our bank, to individual B at institution Z. We then received a call from individual A that a check deposited at institution Y was written off a closed account and wanted to know if we could stop the wire. We had already sent the wire to institution Z, so we requested the wire be returned. Institution Z returned the wire and we returned the funds to institution Y. I am going to report elder financial exploitation, do I report the amount as $4,500 or $13,500?

I am going to report elder financial exploitation

Report where. A SAR? How is this elder financial exploitation. The person seems a little deep into this to be a victim. Wiring his own money from one bank to the other before wiring it to a third party shows they knew something was up.

I decided to list our customer as a victim because he said someone he became friends with on Facebook wanted to get money from a relative, but they would not accept the funds from him. This customer is in their 70s. I am on the fence because I am not sure why the customer wired from another account at another bank, to our account and then on to another bank. Is this too deep to be a victim?
What do you think about the amount? Do I report all three of the wires?

What doesn't make sense is that your customer sent the money from their other bank to your bank then to another. Why did he involve your bank at all? I would ask the customer if he was instructed to do so or if his other bank refused to wire the money because they saw a red flag.

As for the amount of the SAR I just asked the same question about a month ago and it was recommended to put $13,500 as it would be explained in the narrative.