Yea for anything faith based a rule I follow is to never trust with anything more than I'm willing to lose. This is the equivalent of giving out your bank card

Yea for anything faith based a rule I follow is to never trust with anything more than I'm willing to lose. This is the equivalent of giving out your bank card and pin to someone and asking that they kindly take $10 out and no more please. Doesn't matter if the bank rep tells me that is the only way to give money to the customer, I'd sooner take the hit to my reputation than to risk such a terrible worst-case scenario as the OP seems to now have learned.