People were duped into sending a partial or full payment to a third-party agent via a wire transfer payment service and to fax their payment receipt to the seller as proof of payment.

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Since Skrill has country-speicfic payment options from bank transfer to debit cards to mobile payments and pre-paid cards, users are much more likely to buy virtual goods when they see a local payment option they know.

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The structure of the charges can vary depending on payment method (by direct debit, pre-payment meter, or credit transfer such as cheque), on whether it is an internet-only tariff, which part of the country the customer lives in, if the deal involves a fixed price, when the deal was launched, how long it lasts, and so on.

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In June, GM said it will offer 42, 000 white-collar retirees in the U.S. a lump-sum payment in lieu of their monthly pension check and will transfer pension responsibility for 76, 000 others to a group annuity plan managed by Prudential Insurance.

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The interest in the video is the idea that payment (in this case, tipping) could be a smart-system transfer of a non-money asset, if valued by the payee.

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PayPal is a global payment platform operated by eBay that enables secure, easy, quick, and cost-effective transfer of payments online.

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