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“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”

Well that sounds terrifying!

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[–] Candybar121@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

🤣 he's trying to turn twitter into chinas Wechat

[–] Jinfox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Let's trust all our saving to this dude making random decision, wannabe memelord, who just sank 40 billion of his own money on a bet. All that just to take revanche on PayPal who threw him out of the board because they didnt trust him and his idea to have a company called X

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Here’s their potential path, maybe ….

I have no idea the limitations of this approach, if any, but just experienced it a few days ago. I bought something expensive online, and the timing was sensitive, else I’d lose out on a lot of money. Then I got down to the final payment. It made me really nervous and would have reconsidered if I knew about it, but the final payment could only be done through bank transfer, but they wouldn’t let me provide the standard routing and account numbers. They had a web app that brings up your banking app, has you login to that, and appears to scrape data. They were able to see my accounts and balances, as well as initiate the transfer. This was so scary, exactly like I’d expect malware to be.

Bviously I changed my passwords immediately and verified there was only one transaction and exactly as I’d expect. However yes, they controlled my bank8ng without being a bank and without any apparent cooperation from my bank. All it takes is normalizing the behavior that will get us all robbed of all we own

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[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks, I needed a good laugh..

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Sounds a lot like what he used to do with PayPal until the eBay enshitification, I mean sale. I'm for bypassing banks. Elon Fanboy not.

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