The agency warns that some services are guises for obtaining information from consumers, such as a driver's license number, mother's maiden name, account numbers and Social Security numbers.
In some accounts, the maiden name of Maurice's mother, who died when he was 7, was Béjart.
If you know someone's name, address, date of birth, mother's maiden name and bank-account details, you are well placed to steal from them.
The form -- a doctored version of Form W-9095 or Form W-8BEN, both used for tax-withholding data -- requests such personal data as a passport number, mother's maiden name and bank account numbers.
Santander has told us this shouldn't have happened, and that Marsack was the victim of a "genuine branch error" – but it comes a year after Money reported on the case of another woman who spent several frustrating months trying to open a Santander current account in her maiden name, when she had an existing joint account with her husband at the bank.
A customer can have an account in their maiden as well as their married name, and an account can also have a marker with details of another name used by the customer".
In May 2014, Money's Consumer Champions column featured the case of a long-standing Santander customer living in Suffolk who was struggling to open one of its 123 current accounts in her maiden name, when she had an existing joint account with her husband at the bank.
Some have reported that once they got married, they weren't allowed to retain an account in their maiden name into which their salary was paid, at the same time as running a joint account in their married name at the same institution.
Santander told us there was nothing stopping a customer from holding an account in their maiden as well as their married name – but it would appear this message isn't reaching branch level.
The news and magazine stories about them, however, were composed by me, except for the account of the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary, which is real; as is the fact that the posh passengers made off with everything moveable as souvenirs.
