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Old 26 Apr 2024, 11:26 AM   #12
webecedarian
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffpan View Post
There are some local huge providers,
Such as GMX, mail.ru, yahoo japan etc.
Don’t use them if you are not from those locations.
Even though you can sign up them successfully,
After you use them for some time,
They most probably require you to provide local identity for verification,
Such as bank account, passport, local telephone etc.
Surely you don’t have those data, then you lost access to them.
I lost some accounts due to above reason, including:

3 yahoo japan
1 GMX.net
1 mail.de
1 UKR.net

Just sucks!

I'm confused, because I'd never consider something like GMX to be "local" to me in the U.S.

But I'm stunned that anyone in their right mind would provide bank information as ID.
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