Frédéric Schütz schutz@mathgen.ch wrote:
Thanks for the clarification. It's surprising to me that posting a bank account number could lead to fraud - the bank systems are supposed to be robust enough for that.
My understanding is this is mostly a problem in the US, from what I heard from Garfield. I asked him because Wikimedia CH broadcast its IBAN number everywhere for the fundraising, so I would have liked to know of any potential problem, but there does not seem to be any in Europe.
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Nothing prevents WMF from opening a bank account in Europe; in fact given that most of the requests in this thread orig- inate from within the SEPA region, having a bank account outside it would be very inconvient for many donors.
Tim