On Thursday 10 Jan 2008 1:00 am, Thaths wrote: > I use my bank's online banking and bill pay service to *push* > payments. I do not allow any pull payments.
Ditto for me. The single biggest rationale for this is that I have a firm grasp of magnitude and timing of everything that goes out of my account. Having said that, merely publicizing your bank details should not enable someone to activate a pull system. There is obviously a bug that the bank could not be bothered to check out. It is precisely an understanding of the fact that you can get screwed for things you did not do that makes paranoia and pessimism good survival traits, even if they are not foolproof. shiv
