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>We'll send you $105 through the sketchiest way possible, PayPal, to make sure you feel like you're getting scammed, because you are!

What are the good ways to be sent approximately this sum of money nowadays?

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The friends & family payment method in PayPal is risky to send money, cause there's no chargebacks or fraud prevention.

For receiving money, it would be great, for the same reasons.

If I want to send money to someone I trust, I'd ask for their IBAN and do a bank transfer. Now, that cannot be reversed, so I really would have to trust them.

(Also, I'm assuming that both bank accounts are in SEPA countries, or at the very least countries which use IBAN, because in my life, that's likely to be true.)

Note that although the transfer itself doesn't have a recall mechanism, the recipient's identity is accessible to judges and lawyers and police officers if you got scammed.

As long as you don’t do PayPal friends & family and always do goods & services, you won’t get scammed.

Unless you're the one receiving the money in which case it's the other way round

I’ve never had an issue on either dude of it tbh

either side* what a bizarre typo ha

Depending on context: Monero, Bitcoin Lightning, or your preferred ERC20 stablecoin.

/s?

Can't even tell

Ethereum

Airwallex, Stripe, Wise,

Direct bank transfer (which above will support OR just a regular bank)

Requires trust yeah (except maybe the regular stripe credit card txn)

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