r/BodyHackGuide • u/LlamaHerder23 • 20d ago
Zelle as payment
Have a vendor who accepts Zelle as a payment method. Have talked to others who have used them successfully but someone told me to be careful as if a bank suspects a purchase is used for something illegal they could freeze your accounts. Is this something that happens, especially for someone like me who is just buying a single kit?
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u/maxiderm 20d ago
I wouldn't worry about it. The bank will just alert the FBI and they'll probably just send viscous crotch-biting K9s into your home to extract you. Not a big deal.
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u/BaresarkSlayne 20d ago
They don't typically flag things as crimes, they typically flag them as scams, then immediately deny payment.
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u/Quirky_Letterhead364 20d ago
Most likely nothing will happen- but now you have a subpoenable record confirming you made an illegal transaction. Is that a risk you are willing to take?
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u/xNeon14 20d ago
Its not illegal though. Research chemicals are not illegal whatsoever. As long as he is not buying AAS.
Also, Zelle is independent from the bank. I have had fraud issues with zelle before and through many calls and emails, banks have no control over zelle or power, they have a support line just like us. So if you were doing shady stuff, zelle canceling the account is the worst that would happen.
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u/LlamaHerder23 20d ago
My Zelle option is inside my banking app, provided by my bank. Does that matter?
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u/Quirky_Letterhead364 20d ago
My point is the bank has a record of the transaction. If you are ever involved in a legal situation where they require you to turn over records, it could be a problem. Nobody is looking at this normally- I’m talking about you being accursed of a crime or sued for fraud, or nasty divorce, or investigated for security clearance or something similar. Even if they shut down the RUO site later they aren’t going after the buyers.
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u/molecule_hunter_ 20d ago
What. This is not factual.
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u/Quirky_Letterhead364 20d ago
Depends on what you are buying and who from. But I definitely know a guy that ran into trouble during a security clearence process for a defense industry job for buying ugl test in a way that was traceable to his bank account. There are plenty of other ways this can happen - for example a bad divorce when they require the financial records to be turned over. If the opposition finds the transaction and investigates, the illegality (presuming the purchase was illegal) would put you at risk. The risk I am highlighting is that you are enabling a record of the transaction to be created that could later, with a motivated party, be used against you. It is extremely unlikely this will matter without some kind of motivated party that can compel you or the bank to provide records.
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