My bank only seems to allow 12 characters. Why is that? What am I even supposed to do with 12 characters?
https://www.troyhunt.com/banks-arbitrary-password-restrictio...
What does that article have to do with comment fields on transactions?
I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
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Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
#122Every so often my pessimistic tendencies get a healthy slap across the face by the actions of someone who took the high road when they easily could have chosen otherwise. It's a couple summers ago, at the height of the summer tourist season and I'm cycling up 4th ave SW in DC. Somewhere between the NASA HQ and the National Mall my camera bag - packed full with a fairly new DSLR, a few lenses, and a secondary cell pho…
Sometimes it happens, and sometimes not. I lost my wallet 4 times in total, 3 in Brazil (which is $HOME), 1 in Germany. Got it back 3 out of 4 times. Guess where.
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#123A few weeks ago I found a working iPhone X on the side on the sidewalk. I thought about using siri to call a recent contact and try to get it back to the owner, but I found the language was set to Chinese (which I cannot read or speak) and I gave up and put it back on the sidewalk in case the owner came back. In retrospect, I don't think I could have done anything even if the language was English apart from wait for…
You could have given it to some near by store saying someone dropped it and maybe he or she may come looking for it..
Long time ago, I came out from Denny's during lunch and just after walking on the right edge of the parking lot, found a bundle of 100 dollar bills. There were several restaurants in the same location. I walked into the same Dennys and gave it to the cashier saying I found it in the parking lot and probably belongs to someone who might have visited here and then left. Next day I get a call from Dennys saying the owner of the cash wants to thank you and reward you. I said thanks but not needed.
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Same with Venmo in the US. There is literally a whole website that polls the front-page API for Venmo, scans for some keywords that could indicate a "spicy" transaction description, and displays them.[0] P.S. I have zero affiliation with the website or the owners/developers, I just thought it was entertaining. 0. http://www.vicemo.com/
Why are these all public?
because venmo wants to be a bit of a "social network" somehow
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Hi, I’m the guy who lost his wallet! I agree it’s a convenient overlap and understand your cynicism but I assure you that it’s genuine. I can even provide you with the receipt from me riding a jump bike around for an hour looking for my wallet! :) EDIT: spelling + I did pin the tweet about transferwise after it blew up, and I also changed my bio to share my small side project: Podmast.com - check it out :)
You're making it worse. Anyone can conveniently lose a wallet, but one with a bank card with no identifying info in it anywhere? A finder who went to bizarre lengths to make Faster transactions to your bank account to send you a message? Absolutely no other identifying information in the wallet? A plan to ride a jump bike around to prove you looked for it with receipts? Before sending someone pennies with context in…
Unless something changed pretty much all payments in the UK are “Faster”.
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#126"We've detected that JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Would you like to proceed to legacy Twitter?"
Yeah, whatever. But I apparently also need a cookie or something to see what this is about, so no thank you.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, I’m the guy who lost his wallet! I agree it’s a convenient overlap and understand your cynicism but I assure you that it’s genuine. I can even provide you with the receipt from me riding a jump bike around for an hour looking for my wallet! :) EDIT: spelling + I did pin the tweet about transferwise after it blew up, and I also changed my bio to share my small side project: Podmast.com - check it out :)
You're making it worse. Anyone can conveniently lose a wallet, but one with a bank card with no identifying info in it anywhere? A finder who went to bizarre lengths to make Faster transactions to your bank account to send you a message? Absolutely no other identifying information in the wallet? A plan to ride a jump bike around to prove you looked for it with receipts? Before sending someone pennies with context in…
Anyone can say anything they want on the internet! The variables here are conveniently precisely aligned where real world chances of this happening are null. I also call BS. But a noteworthy mention to the marketing idea. With all due respect.
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#128Stupid American question - how does someone get your bank account information from your wallet in the UK?
You bank account information is written on your bank cards, which are in your wallet.
Not always! My debit card # is not the same as the checking account # with which it's associated.
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If it wasn't a real story it's a brilliant bit of marketing. But this may be more commonly known 'hack' in the UK with their banking system than it appears.
>If it wasn't a real story it's a brilliant bit of marketing Marketing for what?
Transferwise.
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In the Netherlands, for at least the last 35 years, transaction forms have a field "Description" where you can enter arbitrary text. Originally on paper, now electronically. Is that in any way remarkable?!
In the US, you pay $16 to send a wire and $16 to receive a wire. So, wires are not as common as in Europe. On the other hand, ordering your bank to print a paper check, and send it through postal mail is free of charge.
>In the US, you pay $16 to send a wire and $16 to receive a wire.
This isn't true, each bank sets their own fees. It's true it's usually stupid expensive to send one, but none of my main banks charge to receive a wire.