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by techsupporter 4596 days ago
Their verification service is annoyingly rigid. Anything other than a phone call to a number listed on a phone bill (and no fair blacking out other numbers on a family plan, for instance) or waiting a couple of weeks for a letter from Israel is rejected, even when the information is easily verified using online government databases[1].

1 - Not an NSA joke, more that "hey, voter registration and property tax rolls are public and online; you could just verify that, no?"