Sorry if this is a daft question. I just registered on eBay to sell some stuff but a conversation with my aunt yesterday is turning me paranoid .

I was just wondering what sort of harm can come to you by giving out your personal handphone number and bank account number + name?

See I've been contacted by a few people in Mudah before with a few different scenarios :

1) Guy A emails me and asks about item B. I reply and he disappears.

I just assume nothing can happen...

2) Guy C is interested in item D. We have a long email conversation and then I give him my handphone number and bank account number. Then he disappears. He came back a few weeks later saying he went for a holiday and blablabla and requested my bank details again.

This is what I'm afraid of. Not that he disappears but that I gave him my bank details and number.

Scenario 2 actually happened around 3 times liao. Here on LowYat once and Mudah twice though email. I'm worried because the account is mine but it's under my mum's name. I'm under 18 so I can't transfer the name yet. Well, according to her...

So please. To those that are going to say do COD, I can only do it at one place currently, not everyday and not reliably so I just try to avoid it...

@ foo0110 - Just read about them using your number and insisting you signed up for some mobile service. I'm not sure how much this happens though...

@ KiNo123 - What I'm afraid of is identity theft since it's not my name under the account.

@ 5w33 - . But if I'm totally innocent, they can get me involved?

I'm hoping more can share info since on eBay I just had to enter my bank acc name and number to put a listing (which failed due to my not owning a credit card . I'll fix that soon though).

I also don't like giving out my info and watching the potential buyer just vanish. That is FFK?

Wow wow Thanks!