Amex wants to verify my income

[700orbust]

Well, got a call today, went to VM so I called back, and the FR rep just said the fraud department wanted to go over some attemped charges (they had occured whilie it was suspended). After verifying those, I requested a couple new cards to replace my old ones, and I no longer have the "charging suspended" message in my Amex app. Apparently I survived! 

[Imperfectfuture]

Congrats.

Check, don't use Amex in my PayPal account.

[Anonymous]

I got a card 2 months ago and did the CLI on day 61.  Starting limit was 20k, but I went big and asked for 55k line.  I got the letter in mail to verify income.  Decided to send it so I faced it over and am currently waiting to hear back.  No idea if I will get it.

[Anonymous]

I think an awful lot of people dont really understand how much information can be on someone like the OP's tax return. My return nowadays is a very simple 1040 with some numbers on it. When I was working FT at a very exclusive CC, I was an independent contractor. I had 1099s from a significant number of people whose names and pictures were on the front pages of the biz, sports and politics sections of the big newspapers. I was privy to things that could have landed me or others in jail for profiting from or using the information. Stuff I could have called anonymous tips into tv stations and created waves (if they were willing to go go to press with an anonymous tip lol). 

It would not be my privacy that I would care about protecting under those circumstances but the clients. And as the OP stated he has had leaked information in the past. Sometimes your entire livelihood is based on nothing more than having protected information. And the gateway to said info in certain circumstances can be on your tax return. If me as a low level working stiff has information like that, I can't imagine the feeling of violation that others may have when someone asks for their full tax return.