lanidar
I am not trying to be confrontational towards yourself; if my tone seems ugly it is geared soely towards these schmucks at Neteller.
Consider this:
--> Neteller is one of, if not the, most widely-used online payment systems for sportsbooks.
--> Most people are really, hopelesly, totally ignorant about protecting their financial privacy.
--> At the Rx, the largest online forum for gamblers, the issue of Neteller requiring a SS# to open an account has been brought up numerous times over the last year or so.
All of the above are facts, just simple facts regardless of whether or not one sees phantoms lurking in the shadows or whatever.
Is it too much of a stretch to think that Neteller made this change in an attempt to quell users' concerns about giving out their SS#, while banking on the fact that the average "man in the street" has no idea that it is the last four numbers that are almost impossible to obtain? Most assuredly Neteller is aware, as a financial services company, which part of the SS# is easy to obtain and which is not.
This is not to call Neteller evil, or immoral, or to make any accusation on them at all; merely to call them out on being tacky and insulting the intelligence of their users.
Phaedrus
