Further reading the article; Customer Identification Programs: Getting to Know You, I learned that banks must check your identification against names on a list of terrorist! Interesting. Due to the PATRIOT act, anytime you open a new financial account, you're background information is ran to insure that you aren't a terrorist or you're not laundering money to someone who is. Just a thought, if I were a terrorist and I was going to open up a new account I probably wouldn't use my real name!
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs31-CIP.htm
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