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I was nervous about the passport page taping process too! Never had any bank staff do that before... But then again, they've never needed to flatten it for a clear photo -- (just put it on the old photocopy machine and put the cover down.) Especially when the guy went to pull the tape off the edges of the pages.... Grrrrr! Being aware that if a passport / passport page is damaged, Immigration can deem it invalid, and a world of potential grief ensues....

fyi, I went to my local SCB branch today and did the deed, apparently successfully. Took about 15 minutes. The teller staff guy I got immediately knew what I was asking for when I mentioned "face scan." Similar to what others have reported above: --you need to bring your passport and bank book - In my case: --they looked at my docs and then checked my info in their computer system, then... --got out a tablet and used it to take a facial photo of me --then took my passport, taped it flat to the guy's desk, and used the tablet to take a photo of my passport face page, --then repeated the same photo process with the visa/extension stamp page of my passport --then fiddled with the tablet some more to crop and save the photos --then brought up a new screen on the tablet and had me enter my signature to be saved on the tablet. and done after a bit more fiddling after that. The bank staffer I got said the new system would apply to both domestic and international transfers above 50,000 baht. And if I wanted to do those kind of larger amount transfers, I'd have to use my mobile phone and their app to do facial recognition, presumably matching the photos they entered into their system today. I kept waiting for them to ask me to give a DNA sample as well.... J/K PS -- Oddly, it just occurs to me, I managed to complete the entire above process without the bank staff guy requiring me to have a bunch of passport photocopies and sign all the pages... I think this was the first time I've ever accomplished any substantive Thai bank account management business without the photocopies blizzard.

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And adding on.... Ronnie, I got the same SMS message from SCB lately... But I wasn't clear from what I received -- is this latest version supposed to be inclusive of NON-Thais, or just another round of the prior version that had the banks saying their system couldn't accommodate us expat folks?

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