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iceflow Nov 29th 2015 9:36 pm

Tranferwise
 
If you send your funds direct to TransferWise.....do they need to know the source bank account details? Obviously they have to know the destination account details, but the less personal info flying around the ether, the better.
Thanks

lansbury Nov 29th 2015 10:20 pm

Re: Tranferwise
 
As you pay by bank transfer or debit/credit card they will know the source of the funds.

iceflow Nov 29th 2015 10:45 pm

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Originally Posted by lansbury (Post 11804811)
As you pay by bank transfer or debit/credit card they will know the source of the funds.

yes I guess thinking about this some more, they would see the sort code and bank account number. Not transferring monies nor having transfers to me apart from my paycheck I wasn't sure. But they would see the source. Thanks

daccs Nov 30th 2015 2:37 pm

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You dont have to physically state them on the website but they'll obviously see them in the transaction. You'll get a unique number that you add to the transfer so they can marry up your payment to the transfer

Pulaski Nov 30th 2015 6:21 pm

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Originally Posted by iceflow (Post 11804782)
If you send your funds direct to TransferWise.....do they need to know the source bank account details? Obviously they have to know the destination account details, .....

If you stop to think about it, they "obviously" have to know where the money came from too, otherwise drug dealers and terrorists would have a field-day laundering their money and funding terrorist activities. :eek:

The only way to move money and have any chance of it being untraceable is to use physical cash, and there is a reason why it is getting harder and harder to deal in large quantities of cash without the government (of most countries) asking questions and generally making life difficult. Both the US and the UK have laws that enable law enforcement to arbitrarily seize cash and force the person(s) who owned it to go to court to prove that they obtained the funds legitimately and are entitled to get it back. I would be reasonably certain that the US and UK are not the only countries doing this.

iceflow Nov 30th 2015 10:13 pm

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11805329)
If you stop to think about it, they "obviously" have to know where the money came from too, otherwise drug dealers and terrorists would have a field-day laundering their money and funding terrorist activities. :eek:

The only way to move money and have any chance of it being untraceable is to use physical cash, and there is a reason why it is getting harder and harder to deal in large quantities of cash without the government (of most countries) asking questions and generally making life difficult. Both the US and the UK have laws that enable law enforcement to arbitrarily seize cash and force the person(s) who owned it to go to court to prove that they obtained the funds legitimately and are entitled to get it back. I would be reasonably certain that the US and UK are not the only countries doing this.

yep, totally makes sense. Thanks for replying.

mrken30 Dec 2nd 2015 8:10 pm

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11805329)
If you stop to think about it, they "obviously" have to know where the money came from too, otherwise drug dealers and terrorists would have a field-day laundering their money and funding terrorist activities. :eek:

The only way to move money and have any chance of it being untraceable is to use physical cash, and there is a reason why it is getting harder and harder to deal in large quantities of cash without the government (of most countries) asking questions and generally making life difficult. Both the US and the UK have laws that enable law enforcement to arbitrarily seize cash and force the person(s) who owned it to go to court to prove that they obtained the funds legitimately and are entitled to get it back. I would be reasonably certain that the US and UK are not the only countries doing this.

Even bitcoins are traceable to an extent according to "Wake up to money" on the BBC


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