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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
...All this despite the fact we havent heard of one other banking facility asking for this information.. hmm okay..
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Originally Posted by harvey
on a side note: Paypal works great. Epass doesn't. Yet Paypal (nor any other similar service that I know of) doesn't ask for any of the damn info Epass does, and the excuse is "US government asks for it" and they are in... Netherlands Antilles!!!
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Can't speak for US PayPal, but in Europe PP is a registered bank (in Ireland I think, but I could be mistaken) and they do ask to fax 2 IDs for personal accounts that shift >?3k/yr and all business accounts (3 IDs).
I faxed in a copy of my passport, with the last 4 numbers erased and driving license (same) and bank account statement with the account # erased and all ? amounts erased.
Paypal accepted this after a follow-up call, since it proved 100% who I am without actually giving away any personal information. Many many thousands have passed through my PayPal account without any problem.
This is why I will not touch ePassporte at all - having PayPal as a registered bank in Europe is fine for me. Having ePass registered as some financial institution somewhere god knows where where it's impossible to call them is NOT fine.