On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@frontier.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/2014 10:19 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > >> Michael Snow, 30/11/2014 01:03: >> >>> One avenue for fraud that's facilitated by posting account numbers is >>> small payment fraud, usually involving stolen credit cards. >>> [.............] >>> >> >> So what all this message have to do with IBAN? >> > As the rest of the message discussed, the fraudsters can use the IBAN to > make a "donation" in order to test that stolen card information belongs to > a real credit card. Thinking through your example, the fraudsters would need to have an online interface for transfering money from a credit card to a bank account, and getting some form of verification that the transfer went through. I am not sure it was clear from your explanation how knowing the bank account number any help in getting the two components for the fraud (the transfer system and the verification), as opposed to the donation system itself (which does not have to reveal the destination account number, and which in the case of the WMF is likely a different account then the bank account whose number was previously displayed online). Best regards, Bence > > > --Michael Snow > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
