• Darkard@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    But don’t forget guys, uploading your government IDs to any old fucking website to prove your age is very safe and protects children. There’s no way this could go wrong and everyone in the supply chain is very trustworthy

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    I don’t like it when a store scans my driver’s license to buy alcohol. I stick to small convenience stores without that tech.

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    My elderly father recently fell for a Facebook imposter that pretended to be a family member and asked if their friend could contact him. The friend asked him to take a photo of his driver’s license and text it to them, fortunately he doesn’t know how. I’ve been wondering ever since what can they do if they had it? It doesn’t have his social security number on it. His credit has since been locked and banks notified

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      They can open bank or crypto accounts in his name, and then either overdraw the account or use it to move money from other scams in and out of this account, so the real scammers name is not attached to this account.

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        Is there a way to block that? Ie: freezing your credit means no one can take a loan, but that doesn’t remove the scenario you described.

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      I’ve been wondering ever since what can they do if they had it?

      Ask for pictures of all his other paperwork so they can finish onboarding him at his new job.

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    Annnd this is why a refuse to verify with IDs online and use services like Plaid. And the web of T&C’s from multiple 3rd party services like this will mean all of them get shielded from blame.

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      Did you read the article? They were renting a car. A car rental place isn’t going to let you just not show your ID.

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      The IRS made me since I used a different service to file my takes this year. It was a pain in the ass. Apparently my existing id.me login wasn’t enough, they wanted a video call or a scan of my face. There was no other option. It was a pain.

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        they tried that with me. I just told em to fuck off.

        if you make it impossible to identify myself through standard means, you don’t get my tax dollars. 🤷 fuck em.

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    The only way to fix this is to have us upload our IDs online constantly, perhaps to prove we are adults.

    It is the only way we can we safe.

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    Most of this seems very serious and concerning, but…

    Nexus also claimed to provide scans of marijuana dispensary cards

    What could anyone possibly do with that? It costs like $50 to get one in California, not sure about other states.

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    Wait until non Americans hear that our national social security ID number is only 4/9 digits worth of “random” numbers. (Fun fact, the entire number was procedurally generated based on where you were born and in what order at the hospital for generations until they changed it recently)

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    I don’t understand what is the point to upload all these IDs to dark web. Everything is traceable! Every transaction ect. If it would not be traceable many would just get another ID for identification on web or similar- like Sim card, because government is tracking everything, so they could track "Indiana Jones " and not me. Later just get another Sim with other iD. So, that data is available, I don’t think it’s possible to buy it without being connected to it.