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| | The Straight Dope: What is a "Swiss bank account"? |
 | | A Swiss bank account, dollface, is an account in a bank in Switzerland. |
 | | Such accounts are misleadingly named, since all Swiss bank accounts (and, for that matter, all American bank accounts) are numbered; the difference with the ones in question is that they are referred to solely by number, rather than by name and number, in the course of the bank's internal bookkeeping operations. |
 | | The secrecy for which Swiss bankers are renowned extends to all their accounts, not just numbered ones; under Swiss law, the disclosure of any information about an account, including such elementary facts as whether it even exists, is a crime, except as ordered by the Swiss courts. |
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