When you have a PO Box number as your address, certain organisations
naturally will not deal with you. Fraudsters use PO Boxes liberally.
Although anyone has the right to know the name and address of the
holder of
an any PO Box number. Few people know that.

You also have the right to have a bank account in another name. As
long as
the account leads back to you it is fine. I'm not sure if a bank has
to give
the real name of the holder on request. I think they don't have to.
Again,
fraudsters use this facility liberally. A PO Box number can raise
alarm
while a bank account as a front cannot. Britain is a fraudsters
paradise.

You are certainly right about using PO Box number and the suspicion
that this can raise.

However as to someone's right to have a bank account in another name, I
would be extremely surprised if any bank entertained this, unless you
had documents identifying you as the named person. For instance, you
are entitled to change your name and have a passport issued in the new
name.

http://www.ukpa.gov.uk/textonly/engl..._your_name.asp

Banks are now highly regulated and there are stringent regulations
requiring them to identify their customers (in banking parlance this is
referred to as KYC. Anyone who has tried to open an account for their
children will realise the difficulties this has led to.

Obviously on Usenet, you can readily change your name.....IMM, Dr Evil
etc. But this is not going to work at your local bank!