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Hey, that is one of my Gmail accounts. The following is an email I have sent to a mailing list, looking for CPers thoughts.
I finally got around to setting up an eBay account as my son wants to get something. This is up, running and verified in about 2 minutes.
I then go to link my PayPal account as that is what the seller wants to use. I can't do this as my PayPal account is not in good standing.
So I login to the Gmail account I created 4 years ago for PayPal (I hate them like I hate Telstra) to see that they limited my account sometime late last year.
So now I login to PayPal to see what they want, now remember that I have successfully made multiple purchases over the last 4 years with no issues using the CC linked in.
They now want to verify my name, DOB and address. To do this they want a scanned copy of my Passport or Drivers License and of a Utility Bill or Government Identification.
I will suck a dog off before this is sent to anyone. Why do they need any of this? Has anyone else been required to do this.
By the way, my name, DOB and address are all rubbish and PayPal don't need any of it, just to know that they can get money from my CC before paying out to any other individual or business.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Not on PayPal (I never visit them), but had a round with same kind of identification...
They asked for a bill too and I asked myself, how they can identify a document to be a government issued bill, when it is written half Hebrew, half Arabic - by pictures?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Never had an issue with paypal (use or request for ID), and only use it once in a blue moon including ebay.
Methinks they are pandering to the Australia Banking requirements. I vaguely remember the banking authority here wanted to do the same, apparently paypal said no, so authority here said, OK, just put up a warning to new customers that we (banking auth) won't help if there are an problems.
It's just more typical Australian backwardness, the Aussie banking authority sucks as much as your telecoms and taxation authorities - all 50 years plus behind the rest of the world, .... and yet they still wonder why big business doesn't want to head office in Aus - it's not just the tax rate.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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You've forgotten their crazy rules to get a driving licence.
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That's a bit odd. Oddly enough I went and linked a new card to my PayPal account about a month ago and wasn't required to do any of that. Perhaps it is due to your location?
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Perhaps they read the Lounge and just don't like you? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Perhaps they read the Lounge and just don't like you?
Fake news. I'm the most popular person ever.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: Fake news. I'm the most popular person ever.
Shouldn't that be Faaaaark news?
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Hi All,
This year seems to be bad if you are a celebrity, just seen on a news feed Michael Bond creator of Paddington Bear hasd met his end... 
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I'm going to give death a hard stare!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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That is indeed sad news, I remember growing up with Paddington Bear. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
However I somehow read your post and my brain combined Michael Bond and Paddington Bear into "Paddington Bond". Which would be a great children's book if you ask me, now to go get more ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) .
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Paddington Bond, under cover Bear... I see how this goes...
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All this tells me is there are still employers out there that think computers are stupid-safe.
How long does it take to train people not to open attachments? (Actually best solution would be if everybody ditched Outlook, it's a mail application with it's ie-interface hooks built right into the os-core seemingly purposley designed to enable external attacks.)
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Lopatir wrote: if everybody ditched Outlook,
In my opinion, it's more secure than gmail, for example. It, by default, has attachments and links disabled and locked down.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I would guess that bureaucracy figures in there somewhere. As a company approaches the size of the government, it approaches its efficiency.
Been involved with 2 R'ware's. Both were recovered (relatively) easily because there was air separated backups. These were small companies and that makes it easy to keep the backups current. We use a mail washing service and have firewalls that block mail attachments and prevent many applications, like webmail, facebook, tweets, etc.
Murphy is out there.................. waiting.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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"A posher me gets mixed signals." (9)
Nice and easy after yesterday.
Good luck.
Andy B
modified 28-Jun-17 6:20am.
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Wineglass
Posher me => we
+ANAG signals => wineglass
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Very good try but unfortunately wrong.
Andy B
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Phew! I am off the hook!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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A posher me
gets mixed (ANAG)
signals.
SEMAPHORE
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Ah! El Griff takes the prize again!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Remains to be seen!
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... is of course the correct answer! Well done Griff.
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I just HAD to share this!
(SFW... Maybe  )
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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