Comment Re:Not just Citibank (Score 1) 365
Hows this for ID-anal-retentive-stupid too. LaSalle bank here in the US requires two forms if ID to cash a check written to you from somebody else. OK, I pull out my drivers license (photo ID, signature, DOB) and my Green Card (Photo ID, Thumbprint, DOB, signature.)
Now get this. They peer and examine the Green Card, look it up in their Manual Of Acceptable ID and yes, reject it. So I gave them a Credit Card instead (Name and signature only). Now my issue with that is companies here send you credit cards in the mail all-the-freaking-time that you then have to activate to get going. So my credit card could simply have been an unactivated card I signed on the back.
Security is a joke at banks. It's like the Ford Pinto problem. They'll do something if they thing THEY will lose money.
Now get this. They peer and examine the Green Card, look it up in their Manual Of Acceptable ID and yes, reject it. So I gave them a Credit Card instead (Name and signature only). Now my issue with that is companies here send you credit cards in the mail all-the-freaking-time that you then have to activate to get going. So my credit card could simply have been an unactivated card I signed on the back.
Security is a joke at banks. It's like the Ford Pinto problem. They'll do something if they thing THEY will lose money.
