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Verify your identity

I was just watching your KDP Crackdown 2025 video. At 11:20 you talked about the 'Verify your identity" email one might receive from KDP.

In the KDP Help pages under "Verify your identity" it says this: "Enter or review your information (e.g. full name, address, date of birth). The name in the Your identity section on your account should exactly match your ID." They also say that 'your account must match your government-issued ID."

SOME QUESTIONS:

1 - By government issued ID they mean drivers license, correct? At least that's what I think of when I hear 'government-issued ID.'

2 - Currently in my KDP account under FULL NAME it says "Barb Homoncik". On my drivers license it says "Barbara Helen Homoncik". That is my full name including my middle name. I'm thinking that since KDP says "the name in your account MUST match your government-issued ID" that under "full name" in my account I should change it to exactly what's on my drivers license. Should I do that? Asking because I just wasn't sure if I should include my middle name even though my middle name IS on my government-issued ID.

3 - Also, in my KDP account under "Your identity" it asks for my date of birth under "other details" but I don't have it entered. My date of birth is on my drivers license so since the information under 'your identity' in KDP has to match my ID then I should enter my date of birth. Correct?

4 - If I update my name in my account and date of birth it won't trigger something in KDP where they'll send me that email to verify my identity will it? I've had my account for many years. I know in the video you said that older accounts can still get that email. It's just that I don't want editing my name and DOB to trigger something. -----Or should I just leave the info I have there the way that it is and hope that I don't get the verify your identity email but if I do then change the info before uploading my gov't ID.

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