johsny@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoIn order to pay import duties, these crazy fuckers are expecting me to enter my bank logon details into their website. What. The. Fuck.lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1403arrow-down16
arrow-up1397arrow-down1external-linkIn order to pay import duties, these crazy fuckers are expecting me to enter my bank logon details into their website. What. The. Fuck.lemmy.worldjohsny@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square80fedilink
minus-squareBurn_The_Right@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up106·edit-23 months agoIt’s probably against your bank’s TOS to give your password to a 3rd party. No way this is legit. Run away.
minus-squarehexdream@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoMy understanding is that should you disclose your credentials you would generally void any fraud protection the banks may offer.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·3 months agoIt probably is. Its for convenience reasons. They pull up your bank page in the background and automatic login and parse the page. It is incredibly dumb and I would strongly advise against it
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoWhy would you need to give them your login details why couldn’t you just sign into your bank account yourself? You still have to provide the details either way so it’s not convenient.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months ago everyone everywhere
It’s probably against your bank’s TOS to give your password to a 3rd party. No way this is legit. Run away.
My understanding is that should you disclose your credentials you would generally void any fraud protection the banks may offer.
It probably is. Its for convenience reasons. They pull up your bank page in the background and automatic login and parse the page.
It is incredibly dumb and I would strongly advise against it
Why would you need to give them your login details why couldn’t you just sign into your bank account yourself? You still have to provide the details either way so it’s not convenient.