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flyingco... sounds like a really cool company and idea you have there... is your whole idea based on just scanning address information or is there more to it? seems like you would need some pretty tricky code to catch all the variations of apartment numbers, spellings of streets, abbreviations, case sensitivity, etc...
I don't know much about it but could you explain to my why just checking the street number promotes fraud? Are you saying that there are hackers that can pretty easily guess? the street address or obtain that info... and then just run the charge with that info only?
These porn sites should just do what we did way way back in the day on BBS systems... when you signed up for a BBS -- we had an autocallback feature to verify identity... YOu dial up a BBS -- enter in all your personal info (like your home phone number) -- then your system disconnects, and the BBS calls your modem -- you connect -- the BBS asks for your PW -- then the user enterse their PW -- there you go now you are verified... Of course this was tricky for long distance users... Personally I just called all my customers on the phone to verify identy...
BUT for a porn site it would be SO easy to just have an automated system call the porn surfer at a time specified by the surfer... The surfer gets an automated phone call -- and then confirms the charge! How fucking easy would that be...? You could even have it make 3 attempts -- or a user specified number of attempts. You could even call international callers -- shit you can call Italy for $.08/min from the US -- these calls would be under 60 seconds anyway it... If you wanted to be a cheap ass you could even bill the surfers for the long distance verification process.
Anyway this is not a new idea -- I've been verified this way before -- I just can't remember what service it was that I was using...
Flyingco, hire me... ;) Where in LA are you?
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