IBKR - Proof of Principal Place of Business Address

[tacokai]

Photoshop is your best friend, otherwise take it inside the mentor group gold and your problem can be solved there.

 

[vn02]

I'm planning to use this account for long-term investing and I heard that they routinely ask for these kinds of documents every year.

Should I became lifelong friend with Photoshop? There's no other way?

 

[tacokai]

sure, ask your agent to help you to establish substance as it is what they ask for. Costs may apply, but it is how many are doing it now a days.

 

[Don]

IBKR indeed uses some cutting-edge solutions.
You can't verify your account from home even if you are in the same country; you need to take your mobile, enable location sharing and then take a selfie from the office.

 

[vn02]

I finally managed to get my account approved but I’m a bit worried about future checks. Do anyone have any experience with small business accounts, what documents do they ask yearly? What happens if I cannot provide them?

 

[rss]

Is this actually true? Can anyone else confirm this?
I don't have an account with IBKR yet but I plan on making one for my llc in the near future.

 

[Don]

this was never the case, but recently it happened to me on one of the corporate accounts where I had to re-KYC myself, was quite shocked to be honest.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

Never happened to me and my friends in the last 24 years.

 

[lagloriacubana]

In any case, isn't it possible to spoof GSP Signal on your phone quite easily. Simple google search gave me a pretty good reddit thread and a YouTube video.

I remember spoofing gps location was quite popular during pokemonGO frenzy, so lot of tools available.

 

[rss]

It's actually quite easy. I was just wondering if they’re getting THIS strict with everyone else, or if this was a once-in-a-blue-moon event.

 

[lagloriacubana]

I didn't really understand the part about taking selfie from the office - they ask you to go the location of the office address?

 

[aniglo22]

It's very easy to detect can only speak for Android .(https://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Location#isMock())

 

[lagloriacubana]

Even with something like GF-II GF-BT https://www.gfaker.com/product/gfaker-gf/ - this seems pretty solid

 

[aniglo22]

Yeah pretty sure also. It probably uses https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice to mount a developer image and then use the "com.apple.dt.simulatelocation" service to change the location . It uses Lockdownd (daemon for interacting with ios device ) to communicate (https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_24281131.html) . It's

Here you can see the "com.apple.dt.simulatelocation" which is only available when a devleoper image is mounted . And this will be probably detected by https://developer.apple.com/documen...cationsourceinformation/issimulatedbysoftware

 

[lagloriacubana]

Very interesting. So there is no reliable way to spoof it?

 

[aniglo22]

I don't think without jailbreak you don't have an option . You could use Frida if you have jailbreak , then it's pretty doable but you would to bypass all the jailbreak detection mechanisms.
It will always be detected by isSimulatedBySoftware (https://developer.apple.com/documen...cationsourceinformation/issimulatedbysoftware)
Even when it's now done differently in IOS 17+ to spoof your location . It's still will be detected .
If it's done via a different method like with this product https://itoolss-store.sellfy.store/p/gaming-joystick-25-only-us/ . You could still detect it by isProducedByAccessory (https://developer.apple.com/documen...cationsourceinformation/isproducedbyaccessory).
So without jailbreak I don't see an option .

 

[Don]

Let me correct myself, it was actually the other way.
I was in the company office, but couldn't verify myself because they required for me to verify myself from the declared home address.

 

[lagloriacubana]

And are we talking about EU or US here? Could be something to do with some stupid EU AML regulation

 

[Clank]

You can use your personal address in your home country as address of business operations.

You can provide a personal bank statement for example to prove it.

This way you can also reduce your withholding taxes if your home country has a tax treaty with the US.

 

[Don]

Yes, EU