Supplying bank details to ebay buyer - is it safe?

I’m sorry Lynn because I feel like I’m becoming the pedantic one here, but are you unloading onto me the burden of finding out proof for what others have stated?

I expressed skepticism about a statement and subsequent arguments in its defense, I have spoken to what I called “my bank guy” who is not a teller but a financial promoter (well, not that it changes much) and he confirmed that by only having the numbers to receive a bank transfer it is not possible to get money from an account (because those are unilateral number intended to receive money and not pay up someone).
Now you’re saying that I do have to find someone who works in fraud prevention to confirm what you are simply saying it is so?
And then what? I have to go undercover in the bank fraud underworld so that I can verify in person someone else’s statements?

Oh come on, I think I did even more than my fair share of homework here. :wink:

Besides, the example you mentioned about the cracked amazon/apple/twitter accounts, is clearly something different from the case in object. I never said that everything is safe, that nothing can be cracked and I haven’t even said that bogman should trust the buyer (well, by now I figure they already conlcuded all transactions).
I would like to remind that I simply and only asked for clarifications about this statement:

I did it because it seemed to me rather bold and, frankly, FUDish.

I am not at all ruling out the possibility that a very skilled and unsavory (as you so defined) person might work his/her way into anyone’s account, bank or not, and do evil starting from little details such as the name of one’s first goldfish. In this scenario the details to receive a bank transfer are probably just a bonus.

But from there to “Your bank account WILL be emptied in a few minutes. I guarantee you it is a scam. 100% certainty” I see a huge jump, that’s all.

Ciao. :slight_smile:

This is not true.

I spent ages helping sort out the mess caused by it happening and taking into account the advice of the major UK bank that it could happen again. Setting up the fraudulent debit is really, really easy. Anyone could do it. The hard bit, apparently, is setting up the receiving account and withdrawing the money without it being traceable. Using a stolen identity is the most obvious way.

UK motoring journalist and professional controversialist Jeremy Clarkson didn’t believe it either, and the result can be read here … http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/jan/07/personalfinancenews.scamsandfraud