Susan Welsh United States Local time: 21:28 Member (2008) German to English + ...
Jun 6, 2009
I read some time back about how people who are very careful about their passwords for websites, making sure there's a secure connection for relaying financial data, etc., will still send sensitive financial info by email without a second thought. I can't remember where I read this, but recently I found myself doing exactly that. A client wanted my bank account info to send payment, so I cheerfully sent it by email.
Is there really a problem with this? My computer-expert son explained how complicated it is to encrypt (and un-encrypt) email -- both at the sender's end and the receiver's end.
Perhaps the best thing to do is avoid email and use the telephone, but that can be costly, and I wonder if it's worth it.
Thanks,
Susan
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Uldis Liepkalns Latvia Local time: 04:28 Member (2003) English to Latvian + ...
Bank account Number is no secret
Jun 6, 2009
Anyone of us when trying to join/prolong ProZ membership see ProZ.com bank info. And what?
Uldis
Susan Welsh wrote:
A client wanted my bank account info to send payment, so I cheerfully sent it by email.
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Lutz Molderings United Kingdom Local time: 03:28 Member (2007) German to English + ...
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Jun 6, 2009
I assume you only gave your client the name of the account holder, sort code and account number.
I may be wrong, but I don't think this info alone would be of much use to any fraudster.
But I would certainly avoid sending my credit card number together with the security code to somebody.
[Edited at 2009-06-06 17:15 GMT]
[Edited at 2009-06-06 17:16 GMT]
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