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Originally Posted by Paul
While its not great, its not quite as bad as it may sound.
Just having someones bank account number isnt really much help to anyone.
About the only thing they can do is pay money into your account. 
As noted, if you ever gave anyone a cheque, they have your account details.
Plus any company or person you pay by bank transfer has given you their details, and they dont worry about it. |
My niece had something on gumtree for sale the other day, someone offered to buy it and then tried to take 6k out of her account with the details she gave them, the bank stopped it fortunately, when that failed they doubled down and went for 34k. Not sure it's the same though as those details were given and not stolen from a third party and it shows the banks are well on the ball, as they should be really