As others have mentioned, its safe to give your account number to someone else. Those online traders like here in lyn trading forum, they have to give out their account number to do business, some even readily post their account number at their threads.

You can go have a look around here if you remains unconvinced


Scammers involves other tactics, their aim is not your account number, although their process may at first involve that to make things look genuine. But there's nothing a person can do with your account number alone


Again, I like to stress that online trades are giving away their account number to public here at lyn, go have a look for yourself.

If they can hack your account, those trades would have all be robbed by now, don't you think so?

If you want to scam someone, you cannot immediately ask them to bank in money to you, no one will trust you.

Just like those nigeria email scam, they always start off by saying they want you to help transfer money, they want to bank in the money to your account first, and so on. Well, they can't do anything with your account number, but that's the opening act to absorb you into it, to make you believe what they want you to believe.

Nigerian scam always ends with the victim having to bank in a certain money to them first... Ironically, its the victim that gets the bank account number of the scammer to bank in those money in the end. But either side can't do anything with a account number except putting money into it.


There are many form of scamming out there, but they always result in the victim voluntarily give money to the cheater. Not the victim bank account being hacked or anything like that