Fraud attempt

[TykeMerc]

How will ID cards help the banks stop fraudulent postal card applications?

They won't is the simple answer.

[minestrone]

How will ID cards help the banks stop fraudulent postal card applications?

Must pick up card from bank using ID card.

Bang, hundrerds of thousands of crimes stopped in one go.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Must pick up card from bank using ID card.

Bang, hundrerds of thousands of crimes stopped in one go.

So will I have to supply my fingerprints on a reader at the bank along with my government ID card, to "prove" I am the person shown on it? I am genuinely interested in the day-to-day prcticalities of how this will work.

[Cliphead]

Must pick up card from bank using ID card.

Bang, hundrerds of thousands of crimes stopped in one go.

Why can't I use my passport now to do that?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Why can't I use my passport now to do that?

Possibly because banks want to make it easy for customers to get their cards, and since they are busy closing all the branches down, they are still prepared to post 'em. But also, the passport doesn't link (yet) to a government database containing the fingerprints of everyone in the UK (although of course that will never actually work - at least in my lifetime).

[minestrone]

So will I have to supply my fingerprints on a reader at the bank along with my government ID card, to "prove" I am the person shown on it? I am genuinely interested in the day-to-day prcticalities of how this will work.

I think that is one of the ways it will work.

[Fred Bloggs]

How will ID cards help the banks stop fraudulent postal card applications?

Yeah right, like the ID cards can't possibly be forged, in your dreams, eh?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I think that is one of the ways it will work.

So in order to get my card I must turn up in person and put my fingers on the reader?

[minestrone]

Why can't I use my passport now to do that?

Passports are actually very easy to get.

However I have always argued that they should have just improved the passport and not made a totally new system.

[Cliphead]

Passports are actually very easy to get.

However I have always argued that they should have just improved the passport and not made a totally new system.

And ID cards won't be?