Do you know when you opened your bank account?

Fourstar · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:03

/edit - you probably want to be vague if posting dates as they can be used for security questions.

My father got an account disabled/possible fraud letter from Natwest this morning for the online banking account I helped him set up on Friday.

He phoned them up and went through some security questions until they asked him the date he opened the account. Decades ago was the closest he could come so they refused to talk further and told him to phone back from a Branch.

Can you remember the date you set your account up?

One of mine I can get year and probably month as it was close to a major event in my life. The other my guess is probably accurate to a year or two (getting towards 20 years and 10 years respectively).

/goes off to cry about feeling old now

krooton · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:03

All I know is that it was in the last half of a specific year.

Maccy · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:04

My Natwest account was just before I was a student (so September 2008), but my Santander (which was Alliance & Leicester) was set up when I was about 12, at a guess?

Skillmister · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:05

Some time in the months before starting uni

qqg3 · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:08

Nope! On the subject, I recently discovered a bank account that I hadn't touched in 4 years and had forgotten about. There was a nice amount of money in too.

agnes · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:09

I think a fairly vague answer is allowed... I normally say "When I was 16... You do the math, you work for a bank" lol.

Works everytime!

ubersonic · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:11

During Euro 96, I got a free football for it.

Skillmister · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:13

qqg3 said:
Nope! On the subject, I recently discovered a bank account that I hadn't touched in 4 years and had forgotten about. There was a nice amount of money in too.

Lucky you. My old account i haven't used in 3-4 years has £1.47 in it

RomanNose · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:14

Nice try Romanian Fraudsters.

robgmun · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:17

This is blatant, but yes i know the month and year

Thanks for asking

fini · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:18

I have no clue when your dad opened his account. Sorry.

TNGL · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:19

I know the year, roughly.

nutcase · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:20

Approx September/October 1989.

tom_e · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:21

I know roughly when I opened some of my accounts others not a clue, I just use www.noodle.co.uk if I want to find out.

zpos · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:21

That's a tough question. Not like you can just go and look it up unless you can link it to some kind of life event.

Snograt · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:22

Hmm, my current account was set up in August 1979 - that's when I left school and needed an account for wages to be paid into

TommyV · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:24

I've had the same current account since I was 12, that's half of my life!

Marky · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:24

I wouldn't have a clue

Fourstar · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:26

I'm glad I am not the only one.

After some thought I have narrowed them down but had I been hit out of the blue with the question while on the phone my responce would probably have been "errrrrm".

413x · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:33

I had a similar issue earlier, my inet account got locked out. And I had forgone paper statements

I got asked about when I opened mine, and my last money coming in. I didn't know either, no statements and locked out!

I have resumed paper statements! I took a guess about the year, I was right!

Add to that if I was the fraudster and had broken into my account those are exactly the details I would knw!