jelly, it never ceases to amaze me the number of members who come here sprouting the ‘identity fraud’ battle cry when rallying against managed payments.
I often wonder if these same people use cheques to pay for things, especially if paying an invoice that has their address on it. Cheques contain bank details like which bank, account name, BSB, account number AND signature. Use it to pay a bill and the address is likely included.
It is a no brainer that those complaining about providing the information use the internet . . . which should be more of a concern than providing information to eBay. I mean, visiting a cafe or other business and using their free-wifi would be a greater risk of having more information stolen that providing the information to eBay.
The majority of instances of identity theft come from internet (email) and mobile phone phishing scams as the identity thieves can send out thousands, and in some cases millions, of messages. They only need a 0.001% success rate to make it profitable.
I am not looking to diminish the legitimate concerns some members have over identity theft. To them I say you should stop using eBay for selling. Also, they should stop using eBay for buying as well as that involves giving complete strangers some of your personal information.
While they are at it, they should stop using email, public wifi, cheques, direct debits, internet banking, phone payment of bills, apps for mobile phones, mobile phones, all forms of computing technology, ALL credit and debit cards, all bank accounts, stop driving and surrender their DL, stop walking on streets and going into buildings with security cameras . . . buy a time machine and go back to the 50’s.
