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Energy supplier - date of birth

PlumbingTheDepths · 2017-12-06 14:11:32

Hi, I will contacting an energy supplier soon to set up an account. They tend to ask for a date of birth, but I generally try to give out as little sensitive information as possible (especially in these days of high profile hacks), so I'm tempted to refuse or give a fake date. However, because this is an energy supplier,…

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PlumbingTheDepths Posts: 41 Forumite

20 December 2017 at 1:09AM

Quick update on this. When I did contact the supplier, Sainsbury's, the first thing they asked for was my name and date of birth. I said that I'd rather not provide it, they said "fine, we can use other things for security".

I've set up to pay by direct debit, but they did say that if I wanted to pay on receipt of bill, I would need to be credit checked, and that they would then need my DOB.

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