While the Australian banking system has some useful innovations, remember that being a country peopled entirely by criminals (see my upcoming work 'Australia: What Went Wrong' in 18 volumes), they are largely used for crime and unsavoury enterprises. BPay is essentially a user interface for direct bank transfers. Naturally some individuals have used it to transfer funds to themselves when the owner of the funds hasn't authorised any such transfer:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/business/2002/07/item20020720221708_1.htm there was a similar scam a couple of years back with the ANZ bank, they thoughfully provided automatic periodic payment transfer forms on their counters. So people were filling them out, guessing an account number to pay them periodically at random, dropping them into the box and receiving millions of dollars they weren't entitled to. http://www.ozbooks.com/asp/store/news/shownews.asp?NewsID=40 Incidentally, my following auctions all accept e-gold: (The Sound of Music mono LP) http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=908181877 (Trading cards) http://cgi6.ebay.com.au/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=mythosrares&sort=3&page=1&rows=200&since= -1&showpics=1&stab=0 (More trading cards) http://cgi6.ebay.com.au/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=cards2003&sort=3&page=1&rows=200&since=- 1&showpics=1&stab=0 --- Send the right message --- + Today freemail + Get your free, private email address at http://www.today.com.au --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
