Quote from: Aveatrex on June 26, 2019, 01:57:12 AM

Quote from: poornamelessme on June 24, 2019, 11:16:39 PM

I'm actually kind of surprised that more folks haven't taken part in this -- basically because tons of folks in other places gladly gave away their kyc info for like $50 in free stellar tokens.

Maybe the "folks" you're talking about are not from US and CA.

Quote from: poornamelessme on June 25, 2019, 05:50:15 PM

As for this offer, I would hesitate to even call it KYC. You need a name and photo, that's it. No personal information, no address, no social, nothing really.

First,KYC is just an abbreviation of "Know Your Customer" (I don't think I'm making learn anything new lol) but the fact that a name and a photo is enough to "Know your customer" we can definetely call this KYC.Secondly, a name and a photo is enough to find the person's address and possibily other personal informations.Also,you're talking about photoshop.. The time that an American or Canadian will waste on learning how to photoshop and pull off this KYC with success he can earn way more than 500$ lol..

That being said, If I were an US/CA citizen I probably won't be interested in this as well I would prefer flip some burgers for the same earning and not risk doing this process Tongue

To the best of my knowledge, many or most were from the US (in reference to the other forum I was referring to, where folks jumped on the stellar offer). Typically they'd be discussing US bank bonus/promotions, so unlikely they'd be from a 3rd world country with no income.

I didn't mean my post to sound like folks should sign up for this, by the way. I just meant it seemed weird to me that other giveaways didn't have a problem finding people -- the stellar giveaway required much more info and paid out a lot less too.

A name and photo is a form of KYC, of course, but it's certainly less info than most exchanges or sites typically ask for. I half expect exchanges to ask for blood and dna samples next... they go way overboard. I also assumed most going for this sort of giveaway were just going to use a fake name -- I mean it takes like 10 seconds to edit a photo. Fake name + blurry photo isn't going to be much of a risk... unless hackers want to steal the identity of a lot of John and Jane Does out there...

But perhaps that's it -- I tend to be paranoid and think anyone even trying to do this would safeguard themselves with a fake name, fake FB, fake twitter and so on. It'd take a couple of minutes for like $500+, but I guess others just assume KYC means full ID, address, social, and they have real FB accounts, so too big a risk. So for anyone being honest, yeah, I can see why they'd avoid doing this.