Dwolla requiring Photo ID

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As a follow-up, I note that Dwolla happily accepted a birth certificate and my money is safely out of Dwolla.

[Chris Acheson]

I withdraw some money from MtGox to dwolla and I got a call from dwolla.
They asked me for my name and address, they didn't ask for ID.
This was strange because I was only receiving money not sending it, so there is no risk of chargebacks to them.

How old is your account?

Almost 3 months.

I guess they must be flagging accounts by some criteria, or imposing the requirement randomly.

[Raize]

I've had no issues, but I've had my account with them for over 6 months.

I asked several months ago why they didn't have an option to link a Facebook account to your Dwollla account, so that people could optionally provide additional ID, I never got a response.

IMHO, this is actually a good thing as long as you don't mind Bitcoin being a legit deal instead of some anonymous underground.

[colinistheman]

How much did you try to add to your account?

I just tried to add $1,000 and said the same thing. They now require a photo ID and copies of my bank records for the linked account.

Maybe it's an amount thing.

[bitspill]

How much did you try to add to your account?

I just tried to add $1,000 and said the same thing. They now require a photo ID and copies of my bank records for the linked account.

Maybe it's an amount thing.

Necro.... Last post was 2 years ago.

I do not think it is a limit though, since my transfer of $35 required a photo ID earlier this year.

[colinistheman]

How much did you try to add to your account?

I just tried to add $1,000 and said the same thing. They now require a photo ID and copies of my bank records for the linked account.

Maybe it's an amount thing.

Necro.... Last post was 2 years ago.

I do not think it is a limit though, since my transfer of $35 required a photo ID earlier this year.

Whoa didn't see that year on there.

Well, anyway, they required my bank records and photo Id, and I gave them and now they are moving my money.

Still I don't like it. A big violation of privacy.

[TECSHARE]

This is a result of FinCen "know your customer" laws. Any exchange which trades USD will be required to do this. Cryptsy is working very hard to get USD trading implemented. A lot of people will have a great time trying to extract funds from there after they are forced to mandate ID as well. Remember when this happened at MtGox? Lot of free money MtGox was "forced" to keep because the customers could not verify their ID.