Ha. I'm literally going through that right now. I bought some Steem a week ago in Bittrex to buff up my account... but you can't move anything out until you're "verified". They claim 10 minutes wait time, but it's been a few hours and Redditors claim it could be 30 days.

Be more like Bittrex Steem!
Also, I thought you needed a phone number to get a Steem account, how are people creating all these spam accounts?