Highlighting a very important aspect which ordinarily is taken very lightly. We keep issuing and submitting our *KYC (Know Your Customer) documents (identity, residential proofs, etc.. such as PAN card, electricity/telephone bills and more) to various service providers. For loans, phone, mobile, internet connections, bank accounts, or even for buying new sim cards these documents are required.

At almost all these places they ask for self certification on these documents. We immediately sign those documents and hand over. Just imagine your self certified copies are freely available in the hands of people whom you really do not know, and those documents could copied and be used by them for Anything!

Its really serious and it has been seen that in most of the terrorist/fraud activities, KYC documents are taken from such sources and majorly the SIM card sellers.

Hence, please inculcate a 'HABIT' of writing the date and purpose for which you have submitted the self certified KYC Documents* making sure they cannot be used again.

Please share this as much as possible Forwarded as I felt it's very important to write the date and purpose, which we never do while submitting KYC documents.

Here after sign as
1. Signature
2. Date
3. Purpose

Try to make sure these are put on the parts of the document that cannot be cut-off by hand or scan.

Be Alert and Act Safe.
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