[Exchangesplus]

Privacy is not a problem. The idea of being anonymous does not work. Your comment:

How would the exchanger know who you are if you had a friend or used a different name to send a moneygram or western union? Some exchangers take cash deposits so that could be anonymous as well. It seems a big difference to be required to identify yourself as opposed to the ability to remain anonymous, if your interested in privacy that is.

is interesting. you would be prepared for your "friend" to be ID'd and not you? Nice friend you you are. Or you would be prepared to lie? OK so this tells us something about you.

BTW in Australia WU and moneygram are freely available. The idea that 'we don't use those here" is similarly laughable.

C-gold require you to provide ID. LR does not. That may change.

Privacy is indeed important, anonymity is not likely to happen.

[blackjackvegas]

Originally Posted by Exchangesplus

Privacy is not a problem. The idea of being anonymous does not work. Your comment:

is interesting. you would be prepared for your "friend" to be ID'd and not you? Nice friend you you are. Or you would be prepared to lie? OK so this tells us something about you.

BTW in Australia WU and moneygram are freely available. The idea that 'we don't use those here" is similarly laughable.

C-gold require you to provide ID. LR does not. That may change.

Privacy is indeed important, anonymity is not likely to happen.

Your a little confused, I didn't say that WU and MG were not used in Australia, that was Okosh.

As for lying, I know folks who like to gamble and they often use fake names to send money. For two reasons, one they like privacy, and two sometimes MG and Wu limit or ban people from using their service. Using a fake name doesn't strike me as something awful, you should be able to use whatever name you want in life. That doesn't mean its ok to rip people off, but it's your name.

I think the idea of anonymous transactions is great, you can do that with cash in the real world why not online.

One other point, the desire to have privacy does not have to mean that someone is doing something wrong. Privacy has it's own value.

[Tdinoz]

Maybe a typo from Okosh in that HE has no need to use those 2 personally, preferring direct deposit.

There is many agents all over the place (here at least)

[okosh]

I've seen it in a heap of news agents...Staff seem to answer, 'we know nothing about it'....owners answer 'it's never been used'....
Maybe it's used in the city but not in the bush