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Originally posted by Mobycat:
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Originally posted by Origami Gangsta:
[b]Not to mention BoA gives credit and checking accounts to illegal immigrants *ahem*, excuse me, people with no social security numbers.

Fuck Bank of America. They will NEVER get my business again on that principle alone.
The illegal alien argument notwithstanding, I shouldn't have to give my social security number to get a bank account.

It absolutely galls me that they do a credit check for me to open a checking account. It's my fucking money.[/b]
Pretty sure the reason they do this is to prevent scumbags from signing up bogus accounts and stealing people's identities. What if someone created a fake account (with no SS#) under YOUR NAME - and you didn't even know about it. Then what happens when said person takes out a loan, again, under your name. And who is going to get screwed over, the illegal immigrant who never provided a SS#, or you, the person whose name the account is under.