If you are actually from Earth, you'll know the answer to this.

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Lore Sjöberg on online bank account security questions. I like the third guy's strategy.

When I was originally faced with these sorts of things, I figured they were ridiculous and useless, so I would answer "jdwhfwhfwopd" to What was the name of your high school? and so on. This worked until the first time I forgot my password and found I couldn't get a new one and had to own up to my "cleverness" to a bank employee on the phone.

Now I answer them for reals, keeping to an internal manual of style in hopes that I'll spell things correctly. (Did I say "St. John Neumann" or "Saint John Neumann" or "st john neumann high school" or...?)

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[radtea.livejournal.com]

Err... please say you mean your "former bank"? If you don't vote with your feets they'll never change.

I've changed banks once and refuse to bank with one other institution, and I'm a Canadian: we only have five banks. You guys at least have a choice of bank-like things (although in fairness "bank" means something different in American English than it does to the rest of us.) But you got lots of 'em. Use that choice!