ktmrfs wrote:
wait till you get to some of the very secure sites that you want to get information from and get access to, SS access, USPS informed delivery, UPS to get package notification and some others. They go to great lengths to make sure you are whom you claim to be to grant access and set up an account. Up comes a list of multiple choice "questions" with about 5 choices like. select the previous city you lived in, and in my case that was from 40 years ago. A list of first names, select which one(s) are siblings names, select the name of city your mother was born in... select the year your father was born.... Select the citie(s) your siblings live in. Each time I've gone through this verification the questions were different, and seldom were questions directly about me, such as birth date, place I was born, etc. but about things it would take more than casual knowledge to obtain. information on parents, spouse, siblings, previous living locations, childrens occupations. select the name of a sibling living in a specific city......
Incredible how much detail is available on your life, and much of this is not from anything you may have entered on a website, it's likely from detailed public record searches.
Some of that information is pulled from public records (you can find the same info on those many public records search websites). The more secure sites will use info from your credit report.
