Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider

Re:Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider by eco on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:01AM (#49415331)

I was trying to activate Zelle with my bank and since Zelle is used for scams so often I had to do a bunch of identity verification steps while on the phone with my bank.

One of them was to submit a photo of my drivers license. After I did that it OCRed out some details and prepopulated a form with my information. Hitting submit gave me an error saying to use my full middle name, not an initial. My full middle name is a single letter though.

The person on the phone with my bank had no idea what to do and just kept asking me try again.

I busted out my elite hacker skills though and added a space to the end of the middle name field and was able to steal my own identity.

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Re:Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider by debugnik on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:43AM (#49418981)

> My full middle name is a single letter though.

I guess you could follow the Simpsons joke and spell the letter's name. I'm adding this one to my personal list of falsehoods programmers believe about names.

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