RE: Nifty secret bank system

2001-10-04 Thread Trei, Peter
> Sandfort[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > C'punks, > > I ran into a western version of "hawala" about 15 years ago. It was a > "blocked currency" service offered by a financial group. Here's how it > worked: > This type of thing is old - The Knights Templar set up a system by which a

RE: Nifty secret bank system

2001-10-04 Thread Sandy Sandfort
C'punks, I ran into a western version of "hawala" about 15 years ago. It was a "blocked currency" service offered by a financial group. Here's how it worked: If you live in a currency-blocked country (South African was one, I think it still might be) you couldn't legally move more than a certa

Re: Nifty secret bank system

2001-10-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:25:33PM -0700, Steve Schear ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 06:30 PM 10/3/2001 +0100, CDR Anonymizer wrote: > >http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/international/03LAUN.html > > > >lo-tech, trust-based, stable and fully functional since antiquity. I like > >it :-) > >

Re: Nifty secret bank system

2001-10-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:30 PM 10/3/2001 +0100, CDR Anonymizer wrote: >http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/international/03LAUN.html > >lo-tech, trust-based, stable and fully functional since antiquity. I like >it :-) You'll notice the cost of money transfers using this private system are well below internatio

Nifty secret bank system

2001-10-03 Thread CDR Anonymizer
http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/international/03LAUN.html lo-tech, trust-based, stable and fully functional since antiquity. I like it :-)