Send and receive money with Gmail

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Post by nandaja » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 3:40 PM UTC

Send and receive money with Gmail
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Post by jasonkostempski » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 4:09 PM UTC

This is going to make gmail accounts a huge target for thieves. Now they don't even have to do the reset password step on your bank login.

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Post by Radle » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 4:14 PM UTC

Would love to see two things: a) Feature limited on two factor authorization. b) Support for Euro, Germany.

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Post by du_bing » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 4:20 PM UTC

This is amazing! But I only see payment settings for US and UK users, can users from other countries use the service?

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Post by e12e » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 4:23 PM UTC

I was almost expecting this to be a late April's Fool...

I guess it's a way to get more people to sign up for a Google account - you can "send to any email" - but that's not really accurate as you need a Google account to send/receive funds. It's not surprising of course, anyone technically inclined would realize this is a wrapper around:you can now place money in escrow with Google and let people know via email. Just like you could probably "send [money] via carrier pigeon" with PayPal...

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Post by williamstein » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 4:24 PM UTC

Can you send and receive money for "non personal use"? E.g., I tried paying some small test consultant fees from my company using Facebook's "send/receive money", and they quickly told me I was violating their terms of usage. I can't tell either way from this Gmail page. Just curious (not that I would actually use things this way, but zero fees can be nice for small transactions).

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 4:57 PM UTC

Uh, no thanks.

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Post by pech0rin » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 4:59 PM UTC

I have been using this feature for a year+. It is an easy way to pay back family members who don't know what Venmo is, but have a gmail account.

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Post by phsource » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 5:13 PM UTC

jasonkostempski wrote: post #2

This is going to make gmail accounts a huge target for thieves. Now they don't even have to do the reset password step on your bank login.

To be honest, I think email accounts (especially the main ones) have always been a huge target to thieves, since many services still use it as the primary password reset/two-factor authentication method. In that sense, not much has changed.

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Post by dbg31415 » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

Radle wrote: post #3

Would love to see two things: a) Feature limited on two factor authorization. b) Support for Euro, Germany.

Agree, this should not be available to people unless they have 2FA enabled on the account.