Ask HN: EU Stripe Ltd. company customers required to connect with social media?

Are there any other EU Stripe users with Ltd. Company accounts?

I was trying to sign up and noticed that I was required to connect with either a Google+, Facebook, AngelList (?) or LinkedIn account to "verify my identity".

After getting in touch with their support to inform them that I didn't have any of these accounts I was told it was a new requirement introduced to "help avoid fraud" and that I wouldn't be able to activate without it.

Am I missing something or is this a totally redundant requirement? I can't fathom how this prevents fraud and I think it's crazy to require business customer to provide these connections when they have access to government documents that would easily verity identity