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Re:A foreigner's guide to WeChat payments in China by reuven on Monday December 31, 2018 @09:27AM (#18794598)
Perhaps, but the official docs (following your link) explicitly says: "At the current time, "Wallet" is only available to users registered in mainland China, Hong Kong, South Africa and Malaysia."

In other words, the official line is that I shouldn't be able to use WeChat payments.

The whole point of my blog post is that this official line is wrong.

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Re:A foreigner's guide to WeChat payments in China by jandrese on Monday December 31, 2018 @02:31PM (#18796411)
It's still kind of true since you basically need to either find a friend you trust to launder money for you, or use some sketchy online service with high fees to launder the money for you.
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Re:A foreigner's guide to WeChat payments in China by LeifCarrotson on Monday December 31, 2018 @03:06PM (#18796641)
You're using a pejorative term rather wildly...you can also "launder" USD cash into RMB cash at the airport with high fees.
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Re:A foreigner's guide to WeChat payments in China by jandrese on Monday December 31, 2018 @04:09PM (#18797054)
It's clearly going against the intent of the company, and possibly the Communist party, I don't think I'm completely out of line using the term.
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Re:A foreigner's guide to WeChat payments in China by tantalor on Monday December 31, 2018 @07:24PM (#18798072)
You are saying this is fraud?
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Re:A foreigner's guide to WeChat payments in China by jandrese on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @01:03AM (#18799170)
I'm saying you could find yourself in trouble with the local party officials yes.

Most individuals are going to fly under the radar I hope, but it's still a bit of a risk.

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Re:A foreigner's guide to WeChat payments in China by reuven on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @01:29AM (#18799248)
OP here. Yes, it's a bit of a risk. But I figure that it's a small one.
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