Knowing your customer

[James A. Donald]

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At 10:20 AM -0500 on 12/7/00, Trei, Peter wrote:
 > > Are you saying that a visiting foreigner can't open a bank account in the
 > > US?
 > >
 > > I'd be quite suprised if this is the case.

At 10:25 AM 12/7/2000 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
 > I would be surprised if you didn't need at least a tax ID number, myself.

Many years ago I, as a non resident of the US and non citizen of the US, 
opened an account in US dollars at a US branch of the bank of America 
without a social security number or a tax ID number.

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