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Please help: Is it safe to give this personal and banking information to someone?
Is it safe to give this information to someone?
- Name of Account Holder:
- Name of Bank:
- Bank Account Number:
- Address of the Bank Branch:
- Bank Swift Code:
- Phone Number of Account Holder:
- Address of Account Holder:
- Attach a scanned valid identity card of the account holder
Interesting – normally this type of info is needed for a money mule scam or a deposit scam.
In those someone deposits money and then the person with the account (who is generally helping to money launder funds) forwards a portion to another person (often overseas to help criminals).
In other cases the deposits bounce after being made, but the person had already forwarded a portion of the funds to someone else.
US-CERT has more guidance here:
https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/money_mules.pdf
In other cases if you have sold a home you may be asked basic banking information so the escrow company can deposit funds in your account, but it doesn’t normally require things like scanned ID and swift code (red flag items). Many companies can just send a check which of course works well.
No, it is not safe to give this information to someone. This could be used to perform identity theft.
It may be appropriate to provide this information to a bank, of course. It all depends on who you are giving this to.