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Pockit prepaid cash card
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Our friend Geoff seams to have all the answersEmmia said:
No one is going to tell you what crims do.GringoGoesToVagas said:
You dont say do you! when they hardly would be making life any freer for us now would theyGeoffTF said:The Anti Money Laundering regulations have been greatly tightened up in recent years. The are lots of articles on the web about prepaid debit cards. On examination, it is clear that they are not really prepaid debit cards.
Dose this club card of your have your name on it?GeoffTF said:I have a Tesco Clubcard Pay+ account that MSE described as a prepaid card, for example. In reality, it is bank account that allows funding only by bank transfers, and payments only by a Visa debit card or Faster Payments. The debit card doubles as Tesco Clubcard. Full ID is required to open an account.
ooh please tell more? what criminals have done what hear with no ID. I mean what was there crime?GeoffTF said:It says no ID, but has a long list of the ID that is actually required on the same page. Criminals have ways around the rules, but anyone who tries them is likely to find themselves in serious trouble..
I have not provided any theories to my questions hear of debanking and having no bank account or having a bank account with no name to it in this capacity yet. Unless you would like me to that it?GeoffTF said:
The OP has told us that he cannot understand what is written on the Pockit home page. He seems to believe a conspiracy theory that makes him fear providing ID to open a bank account. I do not expect that he understands that Building Societies and Credit Unions also require ID.
That is not quite true!Emmia said:
As it stands if you want to use money without attaching your identity to your spending, then it's a cash only.GringoGoesToVagas said:
You dont say do you! when they hardly would be making life any freer for us now would theyGeoffTF said:The Anti Money Laundering regulations have been greatly tightened up in recent years. The are lots of articles on the web about prepaid debit cards. On examination, it is clear that they are not really prepaid debit cards.
Dose this club card of your have your name on it?GeoffTF said:I have a Tesco Clubcard Pay+ account that MSE described as a prepaid card, for example. In reality, it is bank account that allows funding only by bank transfers, and payments only by a Visa debit card or Faster Payments. The debit card doubles as Tesco Clubcard. Full ID is required to open an account.
ooh please tell more? what criminals have done what hear with no ID. I mean what was there crime?GeoffTF said:It says no ID, but has a long list of the ID that is actually required on the same page. Criminals have ways around the rules, but anyone who tries them is likely to find themselves in serious trouble..
I have not provided any theories to my questions hear of debanking and having no bank account or having a bank account with no name to it in this capacity yet. Unless you would like me to that it?GeoffTF said:
The OP has told us that he cannot understand what is written on the Pockit home page. He seems to believe a conspiracy theory that makes him fear providing ID to open a bank account. I do not expect that he understands that Building Societies and Credit Unions also require ID.
As if you read the first page of this thread then it will tell you that Pokit let you buy the card with cash and deliver it to your home and stating no ID required
What about those checks you pick up at the post office you pay cash with to buy them, are they no ID to get one as well are they? Dose Western Union let you send money with no ID? (I hade a thread about western union that was stollen by some enterty, on hear, you may or may not of seen it)
And you forgot Barter as well
And real money tooo!
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I'm out. Putting this thread on mute.5
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You can't pick up checks, or cheques, at the post office. If you mean postal orders, be prepared to pay the fees.What about those checks you pick up at the post office you pay cash with to buy them, are they no ID to get one as well are they?
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yes postal order could not remember name of itEarthBoy said:
You can't pick up checks, or cheques, at the post office. If you mean postal orders, be prepared to pay the fees.What about those checks you pick up at the post office you pay cash with to buy them, are they no ID to get one as well are they?
https://www.postoffice.co.uk/postal-orders
Bit of a rip off realy are the post office, I mean they charge 6% fees on cash card top ups and other stuff
Unless you know anyone ells doing postal orders a lot less then the post officeHuman Rights Act 1998, Article 10"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."
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GringoGoesToVagas said:As if you read the first page of this thread then it will tell you that Pokit let you buy the card with cash and deliver it to your home and stating no ID required.Nonsense. Of course they won't.
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