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A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down

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Re: A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down

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post #269

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It’s advisable not to judge within your limited worldview. Not everyone “reads” mainstream media, some people have real world experience. Your arguments regarding why Ukraine can’t be used for money laundering are laughable and just show you are now aware how certain things in financial world work. That’s totally fine - but it gets distorted when some extended judgements are made based on very limited worldview.

So enrich my and other peoples world view - this is what this forum is about. Instead of saying "I'll leave it to your imagination", please provide any substance of your claims - anything we can talk about. Since you didn't I have to guess, what you are talking about.

It not possible to "enrich" view of someone who prefers to live in a bubble of own delusions. Neither I am gonna try that.

Re: A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down

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post #269

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So enrich my and other peoples world view - this is what this forum is about. Instead of saying "I'll leave it to your imagination", please provide any substance of your claims - anything we can talk about. Since you didn't I have to guess, what you are talking about.

It not possible to "enrich" view of someone who prefers to live in a bubble of own delusions. Neither I am gonna try that.

What about other users that might be interested in the topic, apart from OP?

Re: A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down

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The right solution here is to take the telecom tax invoice, edit it in a PDF editor to say Telecom bill, and send it back. The process is stupid enough that this will work 95% of the time. Is it fraud? No, not really, I'd argue. You're just conforming the document to an arbitrary standard, but all the relevant details are factual, not fraudulent.

In my country, there is no single document that shows my name and address that is acceptable as a document for address verification in many western fintech applications.

If you're renting, bills will arrive in the name of the owner, even though I personally pay them each month.

We don't really do lease agreements either, except for very rare circumstances.

If you own a property, you could go to the public registry, then translate that, notarize and _maybe_ it will work. But I don't own any property.

We don't even get a PDF for the bills, it's just a HTML table with a few lines of CSS.

So I simply change the owner's name to mine in that table, save as PDF and send that. Never failed.

And at that point, why even have this process at all?

Re: A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down

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It not possible to "enrich" view of someone who prefers to live in a bubble of own delusions. Neither I am gonna try that.

What about other users that might be interested in the topic, apart from OP?

Sapienti Sat.

Re: A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down

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post #239

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Same with Apple

Apple wasn't a name change, though: that was its name from the beginning. Slightly different situation. (Yes, they changed their name from Apple Computer Company to Apple Inc. once they started making smartphones, but that's not the same because the part of their name that everyone called them, Apple, was kept unchanged). Their logo was always an apple with a bite out of it, their first computer was the Apple I (firs…

>I don't understand how it's legal for companies to name themselves as common words like "Alphabet". It's not only confusing, it's arrogant as hell

When I said Apple I was referring to this part

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