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How can a client pay me for freelance work if I don't want him to know my name and he is uncomfortable using bitcoin?
Use an intermediary.
Rather than your client meeting with that forum person, he could meet with an intermediary that will then provide that payment to the forum persona he is contracting. This ...
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How can a client pay me for freelance work if I don't want him to know my name and he is uncomfortable using bitcoin?
Use an escrow service
An escrow service is a third party that holds the payment from the buyer while the transaction is in progress. Once the buyer and seller agree that the obligations have been ...
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How can a client pay me for freelance work if I don't want him to know my name and he is uncomfortable using bitcoin?
I am not familiar with Russia's postal service, but might you go low-tech and simply have the client physically mail you currency? Again, ignorance of Russian services available, but in the US you can ...
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Should I, as a young person, get a credit card with "bad" conditions?
There are several things that go into your credit history. I believe this applies to most credit systems, but I should warn you that most of my information is US-centric. There may be variations in ...
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How can a client pay me for freelance work if I don't want him to know my name and he is uncomfortable using bitcoin?
Depending on the amount, he could use money orders (for example Western Union), Amazon gift cards (or similar) and DM/email you the codes, or mail you prepaid Visa/Amex credit cards.
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Should I, as a young person, get a credit card with "bad" conditions?
Would it be a good decision for someone ... to build up his credit history to apply for credit cards with "worse" terms than average, such as larger interest, shorter or no grace period, etc.?
It ...
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What happened to the shares of Lukoil ADR that I bought on the London Stock Exchange?
You've probably heard that there were a series of sanctions and countersanctions involving Russia in 2022 because of the war against Ukraine.
One of the first things that the Russian government has ...
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What happened to the shares of Lukoil ADR that I bought on the London Stock Exchange?
In the current geopolitical environment, Russian assets are very likely to be hard to do anything with.
In the particular case of Lukoil, it looks like the ADRs were suspended from trading by the LSE ...
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How can a client pay me for freelance work if I don't want him to know my name and he is uncomfortable using bitcoin?
If refillable payment cards are commonly used in your region, you could purchase a card and send him whatever information he would need to refill it, usually a QR code or a number. In some countries ...
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Should I, as a young person, get a credit card with "bad" conditions?
I'm the contrarian on the site. I believe that credit cards are the spawn of the devil and should be avoided at all costs. I have lived with and without them, and can confidently say life is much ...
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Should I, as a young person, get a credit card with "bad" conditions?
My suggestion, if available in your country (I'm in the USA), is to start with something called a Secured Credit Card. This is more or less guaranteed for someone without any credit history and ...
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How can a client pay me for freelance work if I don't want him to know my name and he is uncomfortable using bitcoin?
Route the money through a trusted third party.
Just ask the client to transfer the money to an account owned by a close friend or relative of yours (anyone you can trust not to run away with the ...
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Should I, as a young person, get a credit card with "bad" conditions?
Short answer: Yes.
If you haven't yet established a good credit history, you're not going to get the best possible terms on a credit card. Suck it up and get a card with mediocre terms. When I was ...
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Buying bonds vs opening deposits in Russia
It depends on your expectations of interest change. In the environment where interest rates go up you'd prefer the short term rates of the bank account since there's much higher likelihood of those ...
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How can a client pay me for freelance work if I don't want him to know my name and he is uncomfortable using bitcoin?
An intermediary PayPal account might work. To withdraw money from PayPal you need to link the PayPal account to your bank account, but it should be possible in theory to create an additional PayPal ...
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How can a client pay me for freelance work if I don't want him to know my name and he is uncomfortable using bitcoin?
If you both are in the same city, you can meet him in a public place and be paid in cash there. This helps him trust that some of what you are saying is true, and you never need to reveal your name. ...
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How to transfer money from Russia to Germany?
No, there isn't a cheaper way to convert Rubles to Euro.
Currently, Russia bank deposit rates is reduced to 4.3%, but it is still few hundred percent way higher than European bank 0.01% ~0.1% ...
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How can a client pay me for freelance work if I don't want him to know my name and he is uncomfortable using bitcoin?
Perhaps the client can go to a branch of your bank and deposit cash using your account number without needing your name. I don't know about Russia, but in general banks are happy to take a deposit ...
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Should I, as a young person, get a credit card with "bad" conditions?
I had my parents co-sign to get my first credit card. I had the same insufficient credit history status at your age.
Until I had my first car loan, and paid it off I wasn't taken seriously by ...
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How can a client pay me for freelance work if I don't want him to know my name and he is uncomfortable using bitcoin?
I think one of the easiest things that you could do (and I've done this myself in Latin America very successfully with much fewer headaches than Western Union, Paypal (that normally freezes $ for 21 ...
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How can a client pay me for freelance work if I don't want him to know my name and he is uncomfortable using bitcoin?
Other answers involving intermediaries are implying that the OP should trust the intermediary.
This, however, is not strictly necessary.
The intermediary could receive hard currency from the buyer (...
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How can I dispose of Lukoil shares legally?
The Office of Foreign Assets Control provides instructions on how to navigate transactions involving sanctioned entities, and their instructions boil down to "you need to get our permission."...
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How do I obtain a cost basis for gifted real estate in Russia?
If it was a gift then your basis is the donor's basis, not the FMV at the time of the transfer. You'll need to find out that basis. It sounds like your donor was a US taxpayer, so you can try and ...
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Russian taxes with dual citizenship
You're in luck - only 2 countries are regressive enough to tax you based on your citizenship regardless of where you live / where you earn your income, and you're in one of them. Apart from the US, ...
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Are US citizens required to have a US bank account to receive Social Security while living abroad?
According to the Social Security Administration's FAQ, there is no general requirement to have your funds deposited in a US-based bank; you just need to live in a country where the SSA can send ...
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Information about fee via 3ds secure protocol
It seems like you were both the merchant and consumer in this transaction. This is generally against the terms of service for credit cards.
That aside, merchants always pay a percent of the ...
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Information about fee via 3ds secure protocol
I've consulted the Bank's stuff, they give the fillowing answer: 3DS service is used for verification only, it knows nothing about Banks fees.
Also the tranfer was made from InternetBank client of ...
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