Enhancing Account Security: Why Carbon Requires Facial Identity Verification

Why we ask for facial identity documents

Anyone opening a Carbon account must take a live photo of their face during the account opening process so that we can verify they are the one opening the account. This also helps prevent identity fraud.


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