Bankruptcy Rule 9037(g) allows the debtor to waive the protection of this privacy rule as to the debtor’s own account numbers. The Advisory Committee Note to BR 9037 says: “As to financial account numbers, the Instructions to Schedules E and F of Official Form 6 note that the debtor may elect to include the complete account number on the schedules rather than limit the number to four digits.” Official Forms, Schedule F provides at the top: “The complete account number of any account the debtor has with the creditor is useful to the trustee and the creditor and may be provided if the debtor chooses to do so.” We include the whole account number because: 1) it helps creditors find the debtor’s account and mark it discharged in bankruptcy. 2)It proves that this particular account is a pre-petition account. Some debt buyers are actually purchasing debts which are more than 10 years old and discharged in bankruptcy, then attempting to collect them. In such cases it is an advantage to the debtor to have proof in the court’s record that the debt was included. (3)It avoids duplicating the numerical amount of a debt — the same debt may be collected by a collection agency or a debt-buying company, and we insert the amount only once, as the debtor owes only one amount. However, If you know that an account is going to be reaffirmed or continued, such as an auto loan, then that may be an acct number to omit. Otherwise we are talking about dead-credit-card accounts, which the debtor is not going to use again and we have found that including the whole number saves the debtor from problems down the road.