Neteller and other financial institutions have to ask those questions to comply with the patriot act, and banking regulations. They pull your credit report and make you verify information on that....It actually works good for both parties. They know for a shadow of a fact that it's you, and helps protects you against identity theft.
Come to think about it, no. They didn't just pull my credit report, they had to pull others' with similar names, histories, etc. It was diligent for sure on their part.
But I was unsettled by the amount of information they had, near miss or not.
Like I said, I had never given that info; to a bank or anyone else. Tracked by SS# I guess, it was only 10 or 20 years ago my state started putting 'driver license' # on our ID's instead of xxx-xx-xxxx. I guess before that every job search or loan app or whatever got poured into a potential databank. The financiers.. er brokers, had access to that stuff at a level that IS a little freaky.
But I digress. I violated my own privacy by offering them even more information for the priveledge of using their service.
Never again. They'll get my DNA when they pry it off my cold stiff credit card. bwahahahahahaha




