jlf1961
Posts: 14840
Joined: 6/10/2008
From: Somewhere Texas
Status: offline
|
In the days of social media, face book and google, I find it funny as hell that people still use these 'verification' sites even after so many have been in the news for everything from unauthorized credit card charges to worse.
What makes it funnier is that my personal email has my name in the sig line (cant find a way to remove it, since it is linked to my ISP) and with that information it is very easy to verify age, location and just about everything except a criminal back ground check and credit history.
Now granted, I was a standard issue grunt, therefore as any officer will tell you, not one of the brightest creatures on the planet, but I am bright enough to smell a scam, especially linked to craigslist (the local police have used it to great success in busting the local prostitutes and other scam artists.)
However, if anyone does not already know, there is a 'verification' site that does not ask for a credit card, asking only for your personal home and cell phone number.
I advise against giving these, since the operators of the site have used that information to phish phone accounts (as a local BDSM community member found out the hard way.)
The truth be told, if someone really wants to verify your identity, then they should be willing to pay the small fee to run an online background check on you. Many sites offer an as needed service for less than 10 dollars, and will give not only proof of age and identity, but criminal record back ground and credit score (at least three of these services are more accurate than the database that is used for gun purchase back ground checks.)
Anyway, my warped sense of humor does give me pleasure to watch the extremes that some of these people will go through to get one to use the site they recommend and submit the information.
Of course, to be honest, and being the cynic that I am, I would not take the word of God over the internet (hard pressed to believe the burning bush thing with the current state of technology) as well, and considering that I own a pair of the projection speakers (these are a blast, you can say something and watch from a distance as people try to figure out who is speaking and where they are) the disembodied voice of god can be duplicated now.
_____________________________
Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?
You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of.
Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI
|
The age verification scam.... - 
Profile
New Messages
No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages
Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages
Locked w/o New Messages
Post New Thread