Digital BW, The Print

Problem is, sending a check still doesn't protect you. 

 

Ignoring for the moment the risk of the check being lost in the mail, unless
you're paying an individual or a very small business, nearly 100% of payees
will submit the check electronically (just as though you had allowed them to
direct debit your account) and then "destroy" the check. Basically it has
cost you the price of a stamp and a check and left you more vulnerable than
had you done direct debit since there is precious little guarantee that the
minimum-wage grunts they hire to destroy the checks will actually do so.

 

If you want to avoid the risk you'll need to haul cash to the nearest post
office (or CVS, etc.) and buy money orders.

 

Or I suppose you could try paying in Bitcoins .

 

Chuck Peacock

 

 

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ben
Schneider
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 1:25 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Adobe's Cloud

 

  

Knowing someone who had their identity stollen, and the cost, and number of
years it took to correct their credit record, I would rather buy stamps and
pay by mail.

Most wire service agreements require one to accept the institutions policy
for doing business. I have yet to read a policy that doesn't say you can not
hold them responsible for errors in your account and take them to court.
They all have stated in their users agreements that all disputes will be
handled by THEIR arbitration board, and that finding is final. Have fun with
that if you ID is stollen.

With the government digging through Internet transactions, and sharing that
info with other agencies, as well as other countries, I would rather not
have anything traceable by wire.

Anything you put on the Internet, or on the wire can be received by someone
else. They can use whatever they find the way they want. If that is OK by
you, have fun. It is not fine by me.

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