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ATM For Anonymous Online Payments

Posted by simoniker on from the hopefully-no-camera-mounted-in-atm dept.

prichardson writes "The New York Times has an article about a way to anonymously transfer cash online (NYT registration required)." The inventor, Carl Amos, believes the target market for his newly-patented 'Aunty IM' ATM machine "..might be teenagers.. [who] do not usually have their own credit cards, they usually have cash and are more than willing to spend it to download music or games", as well as "those who were worried about identity theft on the Internet, or who simply wanted the privacy it provided."

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  1. This is old hat in Japan by TokyoJimu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry to disappoint Mr. Amos, but for at least the past twenty years, you have been able to make anonymous cash payments at any bank ATM in Japan.

    You just key in the bank name and account number to transfer to, insert the cash, and it's on its way. The ATM will even make change for you.

  2. Easily Bypassing NYT 'Registration Required' by FsG · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. Click on URL, you're redirected to registration/login page
    2. Go to URL bar, replace "www" with "archive" in the URL, leaving the rest alone, and hit ENTER
    3. The system will bounce you around a few erroneous URLs, before returning you to the homepage
    4. All NYT links will now work without registration, thanks to a special cookie set by the bouncing process

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  3. Re:How can I pay you? by Jac_no_k · · Score: 5, Informative

    Doesn't American Express have something like this? It's called Private Payments. It gives you a unique number that's lets you obscure your identity.

    Now there's probably a market for teenagers and such. But I'm thinking pre-paid cards will take care of that...