John Forbes wrote:
In my experience, most people who are wary of giving out their account numbers are quite happy to make payments by cheque. Possibly they think the recipients are incapable of reading an account number from a cheque.
Yes - that occured to me as well. ANd my bnk did tell me it was safe.
So - when I get those emails form African exiles asking to deposit millions in my account for safe keeping, should I go ahead and give out the numbers?
My take on Mark's dilemma is that the chance of his buyer being a conman, whilst finite, is pretty remote. Over a lifetime, Mark is likely to be a richer man by taking risks like this, even if he gets caught out one time in ten thousand, than he would be if he avoided such risks.
At the end of the day, after I passed all the EFT info onto the buyer, he paid by BidPay (Western Union). So, everything looks fine, though the transaction is officially "pending".
- MCC
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:09:51 +0000, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 17/3/05, Shel Belinkoff, discombobulated, unleashed:
I'm not going to post the techniques used, but it's VERY easy.
Interesting. Perhaps security levels differ from country to country? I understand that it is not possible to withdraw money from a UK bank account without express consent from the account holder.
Where's John Forbes when you need him ;-)
Cheers, Cotty
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