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$8 for a verified badge seems like a steal for scammers, phishers, etc, looking to get someone to part with their money.
by KZerda 4y ago
$8 for a verified badge seems like a steal for scammers, phishers, etc, looking to get someone to part with their money.
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- andreygrehov 4y agoWouldn't that be useless to scammers given that they'd have to provide their payment details?
- depereo 4y agoDepends if they already scammed some payment details.
- KZerda 4y agoPlenty of ways around that, like prepaid debit cards, using stolen credit cards, etc.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoIf you're going to imitate say, Buzz Aldrin, wouldn't card-based verification require that you steal Buzz Aldrin's credit card, specifically? Neither a random stolen card nor a prepaid card are going to work for verification in that scenario. That makes the problem way harder.
- ok_dad 4y agoHow do you think scammers pay for things? It’s with other people’s credit cards.
- stevewatson301 4y agoStolen credit cards. Also, the $8 price will make it useful for card testing, the practice of checking whether stolen credit cards work.
- mdasen 4y agoI've worked at places that had to implement policies limiting features for a while because scammers would use credit cards that would turn out to be fraudulent. I don't know the details of how they worked it out, but they could sign up, send SPAM via us, and then the account would get shut down a week later (and we'd get a huge hit to our deliverability because of their SPAM).
- tsol 4y ago>I'm not saying that Twitter won't take steps to prevent this. I'm just saying that there are a lot of scams that are worth more than $8/mo. In this situation it's $8 just to attempt to scam someone. Every time you fail you pay again. It actually should incentivize Twitter to improve their scammer-catching algorithms/systems-- at $8 per offender that's not a bad payout at all.