Originally Posted by
LondonElite
We’ve had this debate here before, but there is no reason to be coy about your bank account details. To put it in a US context, your account number is at the bottom of every check you write, which means that anyone can have access to it.
Unfortunately, that means that the bank account number is all the information that is needed to produce a fake check. In Europe, having someone's account number lets you send them money. In the US, it lets you either send money or take it away. Yes, this is a broken system. No, we probably won't manage to fix it anytime soon.