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Is it a scam if someone asks for my full name, email, and bank name?

I was approached on Instagram by a painter who wants to use one of my posts as a reference for a painting for a client of his. He said my cut would be $500 and he needs my full name, and bank name for the check, along with my email. I asked if he…
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Why do VISA "Electron" and Master Card "Maestro" cards have special limitations in when they technically work?

Translated by me to English from Swedish, from VikingLine.se: We welcome payments onboard with the following cards: American Express, Diners Club, Eurocard, Finnish bank cards, Master Card, VISA. VISA Electron and Maestro cards are accepted…
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Every month I make money from Patreon. I want to split my income with a partner. How do I avoid paying taxes on 100% of the income?

Let me start off by saying I have no idea what I'm doing here. The context is, I am making a game, and every month I make $400 or so from Patreon (people are my patrons, and they are paying me because they want to see the game be created). This…
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Friend sent me $6500 through his company and told me just to send it back

I started helping out my friend's business a couple of months ago as a part-time worker. He's been paying me hourly through square. Couple of days ago he told me that he'll be sending me $6500 from the company and just send it back to the company…
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Is insurance company’s preferred auto shop biased?

I was rear-ended. There's a crack on the upper part of my bumper and the plastic part of the trunk locking mechanism is broken (though the trunk still closes). The insurance company was pretty insistent that I use one of their recommended auto…
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Is it legal to use cash pulled from a credit card to pay the monthly payment on that credit card?

I've got a buddy who is having problems with credit card debt. He had a small business go sour on him and ended up with about 35K of debt that's he struggling to keep under control while looking for a new income source. In order to keep himself…
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How does it work when somebody invests in my business?

Lately I've been curious about how exactly investing in a product works, and I've been thinking about this scenario: Let's say I'm creating some mobile application and I manage to get $1m of investment money. In the following year, the application…
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What do I need to watch out for when receiving a large sum of money as a gift in Germany?

I live in Germany. If my father would want to give me a large sum of money - let's say 10,000€ - what would be the safest, least bureaucratic way to do this? I'm an apprentice and I still receive child allowance (I don't know how familiar people…
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How to profit off a stock price falling

How would one profit from a share price falling, granted that they correctly predicted it would happen? Say I had a hunch that a certain stock was going to fall next week, how could I effectively make a profit on this.
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Tax implications of BTC for rent

I'm considering doing a trial run with my tenants and let them pay some or all of their rent in BTC. My motivations: BTC isn't considered a currency so it's taxed as an asset under capital gains tax. I can afford to keep some, if not most, of the…
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Who receives the money when one company buys another?

I read this article about Bayer buying Monsanto. The question which came to my mind was: Who receives the money? If Monsanto receives the money, and Monsanto becomes part of Bayer, then doesn't Bayer still have the money? Or does another party…
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Explain maker taker fees

Some exchanges have fees structured like: https://www.kraken.com/help/fees. The docs say "fees are calculated as a percentage of the trade's quote currency volume". There are two columns in the chart; I'm not sure what places me in one column or the…
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Is this money transfer a legal way to get money?

I talked to this guy who is always posting about earning money without having to do anything and asked him how he did that. He told me that his aunt was the leader in a temporary service job and what she would do was to sign a check in my name as if…
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Is there a reason why someone shouldn't buy into a temporarily cheap currency of an otherwise solid economy?

As everyone knows, the ruble is falling compared to the euro and it has been falling for a long time already. The way I see it, the ruble will eventually get back up once the political situation around it is resolved. Is it naive to think I can just…
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How common is counterfeit money in circulation?

I've noticed recently that several places where I paid with a $20 bill, the cashiers used a small marker to detect whether the bill was counterfeit or not before accepting it. Like so: I saw this happen at the post office (multiple times) the…
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