Escrow.com closes loophole displaying other party’s name

Escrow.com moved quickly, patching a loophole that would allow account holders to find out a party’s name, without first agreeing to an escrow transaction.

How did that work?

During the transaction creation process, the initiator could enter the other party’s email address, which would also display their full name, if they had entered into an Escrow.com transaction previously.

As that information was displayed before the escrow agreement, one could then back out of the transaction, depending on what type of information they gathered from seeing the other party’s name.

That loophole was shared less than 24 hours ago by domain investor, Abdul Basit, and Escrow now displays the other party’s email instead – not their name.

Escrow.com referred to the loophole as an “abuse of the system” that has been in place before the acquisition of Escrow.com by Freelancer in 2015.

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