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On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Simon Waters wrote:
tom wrote:What we need is sensible bank accounts - a public number that can be used to put money in, and another 'secret' # for withdrawing/transfers that the honest pubic dont need/want to know about. Simples but not simples enough for those grabbing.....Sounds complicated to me. All we need is a sensible authentication step when making withdrawals. The Clarkson thing was a stunt, as a Direct Debit he could simply have asked the bank to refund the money taken, and they should have required a signature (like that is hard to fake) before setting it up.
Except that they don't need a signature these days. Merely knowing the sort code & account number is more than enough...
Of-course the DD guarnatee sort of stops people doing it maliciously, but...
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