# Rental Scam: Scammer provides their bank info- how does that work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 4, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rental-scam-scammer-provides-their-bank-info-how-does-that-work/739433 "2015-12-04T18:23:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rental-scam-scammer-provides-their-bank-info-how-does-that-work/739433/21 "2015-12-05T00:36:11Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I work in this field, I have “CAMs” after my name. Yes- it will help. It might even get them their money back. It’s harder and harder to open these sorts of accounts, and the background search is such that fake credentials wont pass muster. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > You know, it’s not very impressive to claim “I have ‘CAMs’ after my name” if others have no clue WTF you’re referring to. Either Confederation of Australian Motor Sport or Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (the first two I found). ---
**Author:** ![slash2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@slash2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slash2k)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rental-scam-scammer-provides-their-bank-info-how-does-that-work/739433/22 "2015-12-05T04:02:36Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > You know, it’s not very impressive to claim “I have ‘CAMs’ after my name” if others have no clue WTF you’re referring to. Probably Certified Anti-Moneylaundering Specialist. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rental-scam-scammer-provides-their-bank-info-how-does-that-work/739433/23 "2015-12-05T04:44:38Z")
Chartered Asset Manager ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rental-scam-scammer-provides-their-bank-info-how-does-that-work/739433/24 "2015-12-05T05:50:29Z")
> [@slash2k](#): > > Probably Certified Anti-Moneylaundering Specialist. Yep. And, no you can’t just open a bank account with a cheap fake ID. They will run you thru a info data service. It will come back as not matching. You could steal a real persons ID, but then they email/phone/mail verify . So then- which email/phone/mail do you use? Theirs? They will say “I didnt open that account”. Yours? It wont match. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rental-scam-scammer-provides-their-bank-info-how-does-that-work/739433/25 "2015-12-05T09:40:51Z")
Wait, is that what _anybody_ has to go through to open _any_ new account at _any_ bank these days (in the United States at least)? ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rental-scam-scammer-provides-their-bank-info-how-does-that-work/739433/26 "2015-12-05T10:15:16Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Wait, is that what _anybody_ has to go through to open _any_ new account at _any_ bank these days (in the United States at least)? There are often relaxed provisions for young children. I know that in some places, banks will accept verification of identity from the school for “school accounts” for kids under 12. …apart from that … ---
**Author:** ![SpyOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@SpyOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpyOne)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rental-scam-scammer-provides-their-bank-info-how-does-that-work/739433/27 "2015-12-05T17:14:26Z")
It has been more than a decade since I had to open a bank account. However, at a time when my credit rating was so bad a bank declined to let me open a savings account, I had no problem at all becoming the sole officer of a corporation with a checking account. Often scammers are not relying on authorities being unable to learn who they are, but rather on layers of bureaucracy and extradition agreements. Just because you can prove that your money was stolen by Jim Greene who lives in Outer Slobovia does not mean that the government of Outer Slobovia cares, or will in any way help you to recover your losses. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rental-scam-scammer-provides-their-bank-info-how-does-that-work/739433/28 "2015-12-05T18:49:05Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Wait, is that what _anybody_ has to go through to open _any_ new account at _any_ bank these days (in the United States at least)? More or less. Patriot Act. But for those of us _not_ scammers, it’s really not that hard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rental-scam-scammer-provides-their-bank-info-how-does-that-work/739433.md?page=1)