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Prepaid debit card (not virtual) as gift

BoardsMember · 2023-04-04 09:56:10

Hi - looking to organise a gift for someone, mutiple people have given me cash and I need to organise a prepaid card. I was looking at Swirl prepaid Master card. I'd need to use my own mobile number to register it and have it all organised, anyone see any issues with that? I think this would be a single use thing - or at…

04-04-2023 9:56am

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Hi - looking to organise a gift for someone, mutiple people have given me cash and I need to organise a prepaid card. I was looking at Swirl prepaid Master card. I'd need to use my own mobile number to register it and have it all organised, anyone see any issues with that? I think this would be a single use thing - or at least just to use it until the balance is used up. Rather this than a gift card to ensure they can spend anywhere.

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Bad idea as any misuse of the card could see you fall foul of the the MLA rules since would be registered to you. Unless you can get a card that is completely independent of you, I would not do it.

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