15m bank details lost!! - Page 6

andrewb · 22-11-2007, 09:43

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Originally Posted by emamum23

i dont have a bank account because i cant prove who i am....... if i had an id card i could...

Why can't you prove who you are?

panther · 22-11-2007, 10:39

you usually need a driving licence or passport these days to prove who you are!!
stupid innit?

BERNADETTE · 22-11-2007, 10:44

To open a bank account you need something with your signature on as Panther says. When I went to open one a few years ago they wrote to my employer to verify my signature.

Stanleymad · 22-11-2007, 10:44

That letter is still cold comfort & reassurance to families who have entrusted our Gov to look after & protect the publics sensitive information, this may effect some people claiming or registering their details in future & mainly has lost public confidence in the PM & the Gov.

panther · 22-11-2007, 10:47

you would think that its their money we are drawing out!!

cashman · 22-11-2007, 10:55

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Originally Posted by panther

you usually need a driving licence or passport these days to prove who you are!!
stupid innit?

they can also ask for a utility bill or the like to prove yer address, which is dafter still if it aint your house.

BERNADETTE · 22-11-2007, 10:58

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Originally Posted by cashman

they can also ask for a utility bill or the like to prove yer address, which is dafter still if it aint your house.

Unless they have got more lax recently that wouldn't help because they need a copy of your signature

panther · 22-11-2007, 11:03

it should all be done by thumb print, no matter where ya go just stick ya thumb on a scanner and voila!!!

entwisi · 22-11-2007, 11:34

Only its been proved that its not that difficult to take a copy of someones print and create a latex 'finger glove' that would suggest you did something you didn't

Stanleymad · 22-11-2007, 11:36

Seems nothing is fraud proof then

cashman · 22-11-2007, 11:38

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Originally Posted by panther

it should all be done by thumb print, no matter where ya go just stick ya thumb on a scanner and voila!!!

only problem with that is the dept in question would probably lose everyones again, hence the reason for this thread!

Stanleymad · 22-11-2007, 11:41

Or that an increase on painful digit stealing will be on the increase

MargaretR · 22-11-2007, 12:12

Eye iris recognition would work ----unless you got cataracts

entwisi · 22-11-2007, 12:17

Why should it be any different Margaret, Social engineer someone to look into a scanner(easier than yuo think) , take a copy, make a glass eye of said copy, job done

MargaretR · 22-11-2007, 12:21

Persuading someone to look into a scanner will be harder than lifting their prints off something they touch.

But I can see what you are getting at - nothing is infallible