Posted by nunu on 3/30/13 10:44am
Msg #463773

providing drivers license

does anyone else have an issue with providing a signing agency with a copy of your drivers license?

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 3/30/13 10:46am
Msg #463775

I send a copy of it, thought I don't like it

But all they see is my pic, name, address and signature....all the rest is blocked out

Reply by nunu on 3/30/13 10:49am
Msg #463777

Re: I send a copy of it, thought I don't like it

thanks Linda, I will do that.

Reply by Ilene C. Seidel on 3/30/13 2:26pm
Msg #463795

Re: I send a copy of it, thought I don't like it

I do the same as Linda. They probably want to see what we look like. My DL number and age is no one's business.

Reply by BrotherOwner on 3/30/13 10:46pm
Msg #463841

Re: and by seeing what you look like

doesn't that set up the potential for age descrimination? Young or old. Are they verifying you're icensed to drive? Disability descrimination. ALL they need to know is that you are duly commissioned in your state, and that you have completed a W-9 which has its own Federal penalties for false information.

The BWR gets multiple personal information protection statements, you get none. Is your data stored securely or just sitting on someones desk/computer for anyone to see or steal? While we have virtually NO privacy in the US, let's not voluntarily give away the farm.

Ilene: this is NOT directed at you, but at the general NR community

Reply by Ilene C. Seidel on 3/31/13 5:42am
Msg #463857

Re: and by seeing what you look like

None taken, it's just how I see it. It seems it's the signing companies asking for this stuff not the title companies. I generally don't work for signing companies so am not exposed to such nonsense.

Reply by Les_CO on 3/30/13 12:17pm
Msg #463781

I never have. Not that I wouldn’t (with critical information blacked out) if anyone could give me a reason as to why they would need that information. I think it’s a mindless unnecessary requirement, and I dislike working with/for the dull witted, or those that could have a sinister use for the information. I tell those who ask that I have my chauffeur drive me to signings.

Reply by jba/fl on 3/30/13 12:21pm
Msg #463783

After each signing do you have a celebratory glass of bubbly in the limo?

hmmm...

Reply by Les_CO on 3/30/13 4:33pm
Msg #463806

Every time!

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 3/30/13 12:26pm
Msg #463784

The only reason I decided to comply was they gave me

a valid reason...the first time anyone has given me a decent reason other than "cuz it's our policy" -

I was told they want to see the photo ID with signature - that was the tipper to me - I'm guessing they want to make sure the person submitting the paperwork (app, W-9, E&O, etc etc) is truly that person..

<<shrug>> Like I said - all PII blocked out -

Reply by Les_CO on 3/30/13 4:33pm
Msg #463804

Re: The only reason I decided to comply was they gave me

I guess I could send them my twin sisters Driver’s License (Her name is Leslie Sue) but she’s not a notary?

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 3/30/13 4:56pm
Msg #463807

And will her signature match the signature on YOUR

W-9, signed contract etc etc..

C'mon Les!!

Reply by Les_CO on 3/30/13 8:50pm
Msg #463826

Re: And will her signature match the signature on YOUR

I’m pretty sure many of the people I’ve spoken with at some SS and Title Companies, can’t read, and if they are semi-literate don’t really have any knowledge of the documents we deal with and no understanding of what they mean. Their ability to compare, a signature on a faxed or e-mailed copy of a Driver’s License with a notary’s signature would at best be questionable. The whole thing is purely BS. JMO

Reply by sueharke on 3/30/13 10:13pm
Msg #463838

Re: And will her signature match the signature on YOUR

I joined a gym many years ago that issued their own ID cards with a photo. The same company later decided not to accept their ID cards to use the gym facilities and demanded a picture ID from another source. I went to a sci-fi show and found a vendor making fun ID's. I had him make me one with a fake title for the job I was doing at the time (not notary). The gym accepted it every time I used it.

Therefore, the idea of sending a SS a copy of my drivers license reminds me of the gym issue.

Reply by Susan Fischer on 3/30/13 10:46pm
Msg #463842

Best chuckle of the day, tanks. n/m

Reply by CarolF/NC on 3/30/13 10:17pm
Msg #463839

How true and I have to laugh as my own

signature is never the same

Reply by Les_CO on 3/31/13 4:21am
Msg #463853

Re: How true and I have to laugh as my own

I’m just curious to know how many of you have sent the signed, notarized package back to the SS?