So, in addition to remembering no fewer than 10 combinations of lower/upper case letters and numbers for my various online accounts, today I was asked for the first time to set a security question by my mobile phone provider.

This has never happened to me before, and I wasn't sure what kind of question they were expecting.

I eventually settled on What is the name of your first born son? A fairly common question, I was assured by the customer service agent.

I started to ask people at work if they had been asked to set this type of question before. Most had, and so I asked them what kind of question they had given. Most related to key dates or names, with the odd mother's maiden name thrown in.

However, two of my colleagues surprised me. One of them had set the following question with their energy supplier,

Who is your favourite serial killer? Answer: Fred West

And another colleague had this beauty,

Why don't you like fish? Answer: Smells

Both security questions are actually pretty insecure, but they made me laugh

Does anyone else have any out of the ordinary security questions? I promise I'm not going to steal your millions!

You asked people at work what their security questions were and they told you ?

They're probably all sat at home now with one hand on the telephone reciver in two minds whether to ring their bank and change their security question.

"I mean, I DO know him" they'll be muttering to themselves, "he's that christian nutter who sits in the corner reading the bible every lunchtime, oh FFS what did I tell HIM for, he'll be rifling through the accounts RIGHT NOW"

Haha how do you know I sit in a corner???

Only messing, account names and other related info were kept secret. I'm just interested in how personal people want to get with security procedures!

My bank account one is Who is your favourite biblical character ? A: Oblio

True story