Sounds like delayed KYC driven by a business model where they need to show growth in user numbers. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel now for users.
P.S Anyone keep getting constant wirex alerts in app to open an x-account? They sound so thirsty.
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This may interest all of you.
One of my OPSEC strategies is to create a specific email account for every site I sign up for that specifically forces me to KYC/AML/CRS i.e. all financial sites.
What does this mean?
Without smearing specific FIs, let's use for purposes of this example Lehman Brothers, hereinafter LB.
The LB email I would create for e.g. today would be today's date as a Julian date, so something like this "LB23241" @ a domain name I purchase (in bulk), so for example "lbinvest.net" , so my email would end up being
[email protected]
I would NOT use this email anywhere else. Never ever.
Guess what... Several FI that have either closed my account or I told them to fvck off, have sold my email address to data brokers, or have been hacked because I now receive spam in all these "former" accounts.
So, if they sold the email addresses or whoever hacked them sold them, why wouldn't they sell a copy of my passport, IDs, utility bills, etc etc?
Food for thought....
PS. Edit... As a precaution, I also added specific random things to my IDs or any document I uploaded that would be insignificant to someone else. The reason behind this is, in case my IDs ended up in a container with a lot of e.g. "white powder"
, I would be able to immediately detect where the document came from and juxtapose it against the original one that would be devoid of this particular marking. I keep a legend/database also with the copies I upload.
