Well I`m really pissed off and that I am!!!
It appears I can no longer use my Skrill account unless I "complete additional identity verification steps", which would include "uploading a clear, legible, valid and unaltered scanned colour copy or photo of one of the following documents:
The front and back of your driving license
The photo page of your passport
Front and back of your national ID card /.../"
and so on...
I won`t. Which means I cannot even close my account with Skrill, because to do anything except view my account I must "additionally verify". To make things even more funny, clicking "Contact Us" leads to a page boasting a box named "Type Your Question Here", rather than any e-mail link. "Typing My Question There" results in "Reword Your Question"; the darn machine won`t accept anything that is not quite like their FAQ. So I cannot even ask them for a decent explanation...
Demanding that people send copies/scans of their IDs is illegal. Why would a Payment Processor demand that I do something not legal I cannot quite understand. Of course I do understand why a certain type of criminals do, because I know what, precisely, use they make of "clear, legible, valid and unaltered" ID copies. But a serious company???
OK, it looks like whatever little money of mine is left with them is no longer mine but theirs, from now on. Only even the little I would rather give to a charity than donate to a nosey "Payment Processor"...
So I certainly do NOT wish them Happy Holidays. Nor Happy New (or old, or any) Year...
O do appreciate a good joke, now and again, but I find nothing funny about them (whoever/whatever the "them" might be) trifling with either my money or my privacy.