Identification now required to make a cash deposits at Thai Banks?

[Gottfrid]

7 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

Yes when I am back in the US my CA Drivers license is sufficient. But in LOS only a Passport will do. Big difference between carrying a passport compard to carrying a DL.  Also, my CA DL has pretty much worthless in LOS. Also, I have not been called "Dude" in a very long time. 

First, congrats on the Dude, thing! 

After that, I was not talking about your CA DL. What we are talking about is that a Thai pink ID card or a Thai DL works in many cases. If you do not have valid ID issued in the country you reside in or visit, you must use your passport. It´s just to accept, Dude.

[BigStar]

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Good for you, but not all requirements for a pink ID card are within the control of the applicant.  It cannot "be made to happen" just like that if the property owner is non-compliant, as is their privilege.

 

It can "be made to happen" with a different property owner, including yourself, DUH. 

[sqwakvfr]

13 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

First, congrats on the Dude, thing! 

After that, I was not talking about your CA DL. What we are talking about is that a Thai pink ID card or a Thai DL works in many cases. If you do not have valid ID issued in the country you reside in or visit, you must use your passport. It´s just to accept, Dude.

Ok Dude.  Do not have a Pink or a Thai DL.  So I will have to use the old passport.  Got it, "Lebowski". 

[Gottfrid]

10 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

Ok Dude.  Do not have a Pink or a Thai DL.  So I will have to use the old passport.  Got it, "Lebowski". 

Great! I am glad that I was able to spread some clarity.

[superal]

18 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

As always this seems redundant (TIT) but a month  ago Bangkok Bank directed me to come into a local branch to register again.  This process as always required my passport being copied again and this time I had to have my face photographed from varioous angles like a booking photo after being arrested.  Now that Bangkok Bank has all this information about me I still need to bring my passport in just to make a cash deposit.  "Somewhere in the world former Aseannow Member Bob Smith must be smiling".  

Me too . Recently logged on to the Bangkok Bank web site . Had to provide D.O.B & PP number . Then up pops the face recognition system which I did not have . So off to my local BBK to have my picture taken .  It took the bank lady several attempts to take an acceptable photo . Why not use a finger print app I asked , not have was the reply  . Or is there another motive for taking a photo ?

[Gottfrid]

30 minutes ago, BigStar said:

Course, some overstayers may have lost their passports.)

Yeah, or afraid to show them as they are on overstay.

[BigStar]

28 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Great! I am glad that I was able to spread some clarity.

 

It's just all so complicated, the idea that two other kinds of ID--Thai ID--could sometimes be used in lieu of one's passport, so obviating the need to carry it.🙂 But then, after laborious ratiocination, only to arrive at the triumphant conclusion that if one doesn't have either alternative ID, a passport must indeed suffice.

 

[david555]

call you all lucky in Thailand.... as in my E.U. country by deposit cash money on bank account must show invoice , starting from 2900 Euro deposit.....CRS  (OECD ) controls !!, and Thailand is now active in this from 2022  after trying delay for so many years ...

[Bday Prang]

7 hours ago, superal said:

. Or is there another motive for taking a photo ?

very probably,   and if there isn't yet there will be one day  and they have yours already, als well as passport number , banlk account number telephone number etc etc,   all for your security and safety blah blah blah ,    probably worth a few bob to any call centers too.

[Bday Prang]

4 hours ago, david555 said:

call you all lucky in Thailand.... as in my E.U. country by deposit cash money on bank account must show invoice , starting from 2900 Euro deposit.....CRS  (OECD ) controls !!, and Thailand is now active in this from 2022  after trying delay for so many years ...

As usual a pain in the ass for normal people , and the money launderers carry on unabated, laughing all the way to ....well, wherever they keep their ill gotten gains these days

[advancebooking]

The bank that is really over the top in this regard is TTb.   Bangkok bank might be the most easy going

[JoergADA]

In my case, I always have it on me, I just don’t want to take it out of the bagpack as a precaution, a few times  it so happened I forgot to close the zipper, thankfully it did not drop out nor was it hit by a rain shower. Only the paranoid survive, a whole book has been written about it. Wait until you get older lol 

[guyfromtheweb2]

Yep.  I used to make cash deposits at the cash deposit machines (CDM) to pay my landlord when I first got here, but now I need to insert some form of ID like a Thai bank card before I can do any sort of deposit.  

 

What really doesn't make sense is that with Bangkok Bank, you don't need a debit card for withdrawals (if you want to avoid the annual 300 baht debit card fee) because you can just make withdrawals using the phone app.  However, you cannot make deposits using the phone app. 

 

This means you can only make cash deposits by physically seeing a bank teller, with your passport, or if you use the CDM you need another Thai bank card that can verify your identity.   It would be nice to use the app for deposits as well.  As we move into the future, we should be ditching cards, bank tellers, all customer service people, and letting computers do everything with ease.

[bravo19]

5 hours ago, guyfromtheweb2 said:

 As we move into the future, we should be ditching cards, bank tellers, all customer service people, and letting computers do everything with ease.

Correct, but why do you use a CDM to pay your landlord? Pay by bank transfer is easier and no card is necessary.

[richard_smith237]

On 9/24/2024 at 7:54 PM, Upnotover said:

Passport.  Easy.  Why are people so terrified to carry it around when needed?  It's needed to take money out, and put in.  In Qatar I recall I couldn't even get into a pub without it, at least they didn't start that here.....yet.

 

Not 'easy' - its arguably risky to be carrying your passport around everywhere you go IMO....

I need to travel regularly for work, my passport has my Visa's in it...  lose a passport, and that makes life very tricky for many people.... No so much a problem if you have no need for regular travel though. 

This is the reason I use a Pink ID... to limit the reliance on a Passport so I can keep it safe at home.

 

& the Qatar thing is nuts - not just the passport, but when I've had QID I have to show that in a pub or bar (not in higher end hotel bars though - where drinks are even more extortionate).

[guyfromtheweb2]

16 hours ago, bravo19 said:

Correct, but why do you use a CDM to pay your landlord? Pay by bank transfer is easier and no card is necessary.

I only paid by CDM when I first got here years ago before I set up my Thai bank accounts and PromptPay.  Now of course I use bank transfer.

[1FinickyOne]

On 9/24/2024 at 5:16 PM, it is what it is said:

 

mate, when you've been here a bit longer you'll realise passport id is required for all sorts of things, just get used to it, it's really no big deal

I never have my passport with me, but my driver's license is accepted easily... and for every transaction... so what? I never mind showing them my ID - as you say, no big deal. 

[Drumbuie]

On 9/24/2024 at 8:40 PM, BigStar said:

 

Not all foreigners wish to carry their passports. DL or pink card, much more convenient.

I don't usually carry my passport around but I have a file of scans of the relevant passport pages on my phone. That's usually enough, even with the bank .

[Surasak]

On 9/24/2024 at 8:40 PM, BigStar said:

 

Not all foreigners wish to carry their passports. DL or pink card, much more convenient.

Sure, until you get some dumb clerk who insists on the passport you left at home.

"Life gets teejus, don't it."

[ignis]

Passport business started about a year ago in both Banks and post Office...

 

Silly lived here 21 years always use same banks and post office .. very few foreigners here out in the sticks, most of the staff are the same, Bank is only 2 windows mostly only 1 older Lady teller open [seen 100's of times]....... Same with Post Office send a EMS mail letter in Thailand cost 34 baht need Passport !!!

 

And NO never carry my Passport on local trips..  my Thai DL is OK but is still si9lly

[BigStar]

52 minutes ago, ignis said:

Passport business started about a year ago in both Banks and post Office...

 

Silly lived here 21 years always use same banks and post office .. very few foreigners here out in the sticks, most of the staff are the same, Bank is only 2 windows mostly only 1 older Lady teller open [seen 100's of times]....... Same with Post Office send a EMS mail letter in Thailand cost 34 baht need Passport !!!

 

And NO never carry my Passport on local trips..  my Thai DL is OK but is still si9lly

 

"ID" business.

[BigStar]

1 hour ago, Surasak said:

Sure, until you get some dumb clerk who insists on the passport you left at home.

"Life gets teejus, don't it."

 

I haven't encountered any such clerks where I didn't expect to.

[Dickp]

I have lived in Bangkok in the same house for 34+ years. Back in 1991 this was LOS over time I can truly say not anymore,  it's just like any western country now. As for pink card I asked our local office and they gave me a list of things I would need the worse was passport front page, copy certified by Embassy, translated into Thai and certified by the TFM. same for marriage license because the one have now is to old (just like me and the Thai wife). Did they think that something was going to change after all those years? Plus two witness and could not be family. there was some other paperwork required but don't remember. I do not carry my passport with me like stated above, only for new Bank Book and IMO. Most places will take my Thai DL as ID.

[Confuscious]

On 9/24/2024 at 11:03 AM, sqwakvfr said:

Went to a local Bangkok Bank branch in CNX to make a deposit at the CDM (Cash Deposit Machiine) and the machine had a garbage bag over it.  Also, a vidoe posted by Integrity Legal states ID is now required to make cash deposits.  I went into the branch and got a number to make cash deposit but gave up an hour later because only one teller was working and the wait time was incredibly long.  Has anyone else heard about this? 

Showing your ID is required almost everywhere in Thailand.
Sending a post/package need to show your id.
 

[sqwakvfr]

6 hours ago, Confuscious said:

Showing your ID is required almost everywhere in Thailand.
Sending a post/package need to show your id.
 

When I get a massage I have never been asked for ID. Never been asked for an ID when I get a beer at a bar.