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What does that have to do with anything? If you issue fraudulent demand drafts, the bank will trace the destination account and send lawyers after you. If you trace referrers and open the origin URL, it's doubtful whether anyone will trace it or have legal recourse against you.


Not guaranteed.

I'm aware of a story where a local credit union assigned account numbers strictly sequentially. A customer setting up direct-withdrawal typo'd their account number by omitting a digit, i.e. their acccount number was '12345' and they entered '1234'.

Since the numbers are sequential, '1234' happened to exist. For about a year, the company in question cheerfully direct-withdrew from the inappropriate account, and the original owner of '1234' never noticed, never complained, or had their complaints ignored. To my knowledge, the error was never rectified.

End of the day, direct-draft is a badly-architected system from a security standpoint.


That's not two-factor authentication.




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