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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
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
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.
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.
Just rented a car. Fuck.
Yeah, there’s like 150 million IDs and licenses. I guess the company that handles like every major businesses ID verification has online security designed by Grom. Should arrest the top 15 people hands down.
I’m literally picking one up in an hour 😬
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.
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.
So how they did it once upon a time was you showed them your license, they punched the # into the system that would check it. The person at the desk would confirm it was you from the picture. No need to scan the actual ID card, which is where this problem comes from.
That is true, but now they rather have a digital proof for insurance reasons.
Yeah, it was from renting cars, but they are digital copies of your ID, so any online service is just as “at-risk”, if not more.
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.
Surely the company must be liable, right guys? Right…?
The company MUST be Held accountable and liable for this
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.
Why would they do that? What’s the use of scanning it?
It keeps liquor prices down because you get the extra revenue from selling the scans. Try to keep up smh
You’re the product. The alcohol is just the lure.
The stated justification is that it somehow catches forgeries that altered the front of an ID but didn’t make the barcode information match. That might have been justifiable in like 1980 or something, but it’s reaaaaaaally not hard to generate the correct barcode these days if you’re forging an ID.
The real reason is to track and sell more data about you.
It validates against the states license database to confirm it’s a legitimate ID and not a fake.
It’s for the children’s safety, like age verification
Had a fun time visiting the US, clerk didn’t understand why she couldn’t scan my ID and find it in the database. All that for trying to buy some cigarettes as I was a smoker at the time and didn’t bring much with me (stupid mistake, they’re way more expensive in the US)
Depends on the state. In Missouri I can easily find cigarettes under 5 dollars.
UNSCANNABLE! https://youtu.be/Gg--VIL2I6Y
Luckily archive.org saved the idscan.net press release announcing their partnership with Planet13 dispensaries. They have since deleted the post on their site. Nothing shady about that. 😂
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.
The data gets sold in blocks usually. Could be for identity theft, or SIM swap attacks or any number of things. A lot of things online want an ID scan now, so this is a huge benefit to scammers.
I still have to see the online service or site asking for my ID. Maybe because I’m mostly off of the bullshit-net for the most part. But the moment any service I use asks for ID, it’s getting cancelled and blocked in my house at the network level. I’m expecting my digital life to be dramatically downsized moving forward.
Car rentals, well, not many options there when traveling, since I absolutely refuse to use ride-share apps like Uber and such.
Legal weed in CA now dawg. No dispensary card needed
Under 21 still requires a medical card
Less taxes in most places if you have a med card. Financially sensible if you buy a certain amount per year.
But then there’s a record of you being a cannabis user, which could lead to your second amendment rights being curtailed.
There is a record, but there’s no central database unless you get an MMIC card which is different than what probably 99.9% of people do (but also larger tax benenfits)
Huh, I just assumed they got rid of them when legalization happened. TIL
My first thought was “so this is how they got my fake from back in the day to scan”
I got arrested this past Saturday… They called my mom to try and scam her.
what did you do?! oh wait I guess it probably wouldnt be a good idea to admit guilt on the internet so quickly after being arrested
“i got arrested” is not an admission of guilt
Feed people 🤷♂️
I am proud of you, sorry the state is arresting you for that. hopefully you do not get prosecuted.
Yeah. You gotta ask “what did you allegedly do?”
Jeez, Daniel Gooooooch must be pretty pissed about this article revealing his name as an example pic.
wait. the gooch!
