IB sent me email asking for routine interview, what is it?

Sig said:
My (now ex) bank, BofA, which had been with for 20 years, recently insisted I talk to them via the phone, no email, to verify my customer information hadn't changed. One of the important facts they needed to verify hadn't changed was....my date of birth. And yes, I verified that was indeed what they were asking for and the bot I was speaking with was at a complete loss to explain how that might have changed. All they could do is repeat over and over that they had to ask these questions for my safety.
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Maybe that was a phishing attempt? Or, asking your date of birth might have been to help ensure it was really you speaking to them.
 
ph1l said:
Maybe that was a phishing attempt? Or, asking your date of birth might have been to help ensure it was really you speaking to them.
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That's the other infuriating thing, they initially called me with what clearly met all the standards of a phishing attempt...but it was legit. I told them I felt like this was a phishing attempt and hung up, but then called back at their published number and it turns out it wasn't. Ironic since they had sent me a few months before some anti-phishing guidance which clearly said not to answer someone who called up...asking exactly what they asked me. Again the botlike human I spoke to had no answer to that.
 
IB fined by sec 1 or 2 years ago and pay more than 30 millions.

After incident they close accounts from countries like russia
Block penny stocks sales, they will frozen your account if you buy or sell more than 10% daily stocks volume

Generally ib is a very good broker to receive and send money, after request wire transfer they send money after less than 10 minutes. IB accept deposits from many currencies and methods

Tradestation are more paranoid, some time ago tradestation frozen my account after 500 usd bitcoin deposit. Tradestation require many documents for approve wire transfer
 
Most stock brokers ignore money laundering or have few employees to watch. Foreigners cant open a USA bank account but can open a online brokerage account and transfer millions inside and out

Generally, self clearing brokers are more vigilant and problematic - schwab, tradestation, interactive brokers, fidelity.
 
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