There's only the archaic financial system in the US to blame that creates more opportunities for scam.
A fake job offer gone wrong
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Re: A fake job offer gone wrong
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I mean, I don't really see that happening. Sweden is for all intents and purposes cashless these days, and I don't think we have more giftcards now than we did in the 90s when cash was commonplace. To clarify about the cashlessness of Sweden: cash still exists, and you can still get government printed bills, but many places have stopped accepting them, and these days whenever someone has non-foreign cash it becomes t…
How do you give money to kids? Where I live if you're under 18 you can't get any kind of bank card.
I had a debit card when I was 14, but I think you can get one even sooner if your parents sign off in it. I think one of the reasons I didn't get a debit card sooner was because when I was a kid, cash was still relatively common (yes, I'm old - I remember using cash in Sweden!)