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And what if you add a debit card without money? Or add a disposable card and then the next day you deactivate it?

Nowadays everyone push you to add a card to open free* account. Such disposable cards is a solution to this issue.



Your debt will be sold to a collection company.


Can they find and owner of the inactive card? If I put a fake name to their system


Your debit card bank has your real name and you agreed to share it to get the card in the first place.


What a great achievement of our society. Inventing a financial instrument to buy and sell debts.


It really is. It decreases the risk and necessary KYC checks so a lot more people can get serviced that would be shown the door in a world where you can't sell a debt.


In many countries this is meaningless.

I just ignore any horseshit that goes to collections outright


Many don't accept prepaid cards.




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