I’ll tell you if it is possible to know another person’s number through Bizum. Find out what data the app provides to users who make transfers.
In this guide I explain If it is possible (or not) to know someone’s number through Bizum. Does the service inform you of the telephone number of the person who sends you money? If you have that doubt or think it is possible, I recommend reading this guide. Here all the unknowns in this regard are resolved.
Can you find out someone’s number using Bizum?
In short, no. Bizum does not reveal the phone number to neither of the two parties. However, you should keep in mind that to make a money transfer, one of the two parties must have the other user’s phone. I explain.
Imagine that you are going to sell something on Wallapop which, in case you didn’t know, is one of the best applications to buy and sell second-hand products. You have met the buyer at a certain point and have agreed on the final price. The other party has asked you if they could make the payment through Bizum, to which you have agreed.
You arrive at the location and finally the sale is successfully closed. The buyer asks for your phone number to send you the money through Bizum. This is a mandatory step and there is no way to replace it with other information. This being so, the person who bought your product from you he could keep your phone and save it in his address book. Although that is unlikely to happen, it is a possibility.
This would be the only way to know another person’s number thanks to Bizum. However, this is probably not the method you are looking for.
Two ways to send or receive a Bizum
This application to send and receive money It has spread in the Spanish market overwhelmingly. In part, its success is due to the fact that Bizum is compatible with many banks. And the way to standardize transfers is with each user’s phone number.
When you are going to send or request money through Bizum, there are two ways to enter the phone number:
- with the agenda. Depending on your bank’s application, it is possible to read your list of contacts and detect which ones have signed up for the service. Although in this case Bizum does show the phone number of the receiver or sender, you don’t really discover any new data, because all the contacts are in your phonebook.
- Manually entering the number. This is another possibility. When making a transfer, one of the two parties requests the number from the other and enters it manually. It is the only way to know the other user’s number.
Taking this into account, if you want to save the number of the people to whom you send or request a Bizum, I recommend that in any transaction you be the one who requests this information first. Even if you are going to sell something, you can ask for the number to send the payment request.
Beyond this “trick”, there is no possibility of knowing the mobile number of another person who sends you money. Bizum reserves this data solely to make transfers possiblebut it does not show it in shipments or requests.
And what about the name?
What you will be able to know about the person who sends you money is their name, at least partially. When someone sends you money or you send it, the name of the other user involved in the transaction appears.
However, it appears in the following format:
That means that if the person’s name is Pedro Lozano López, Bizum will inform you that his name is Pedro LL. Without a doubt, this makes his identification extremely difficult, but it can help you in some situations.
For example, if you have been a victim of a Bizum scam, You do well to memorize the name of the user who made the request. You can also take a screenshot to have this information later, which is important if the authorities request it.
As you have seen, the ways to identify another person through Bizum are few. The platform bet on privacy (and, possibly, for compliance with regulations), avoiding giving more personal information than the first name and the initials of the two surnames.