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Re:NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft by Tenoke on Thursday December 16, 2021 @02:08PM (#29582416)
>We have Post Offices in nearly every corner of this country. How about turning them into a kind of value-added identity verification

When I opened a bank account (n26) in Germany this is how they verified my identity (along with a brief video call) as a foreigner so the idea has merit.

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Re:NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft by froh on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:18AM (#29588557)
It's called PostIdent, it'd a wonderful service.
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