Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k
by DangerousPie on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:27AM
(#26552067)
I had a similar story a few years ago, except it changed my birthdate rather than my name. Luckily I looked at the confirmation email for some reason and noticed it. Was a total nightmare to get that changed, although I didn't end up paying in the end.
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Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k
by DavidMankin on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:51AM
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A few years ago they wouldn’t let me board a flight from SFO to Australia because my visa said I was born in 1921 when my passport didn’t agree. After a good bit of hassle we just had me go and apply for (and pay for) another visa on the electronic application site and this time I noticed that it’s exactly what happened: 1Password (IIRC) used my Visa expiration year for my visa birthday.
I’m lucky that my status meant it was an automatic approval for the second visa!
Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k
by heavenlyblue on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:10AM
(#26555206)
It's amazing though that they literally gave a visa to some other random person without any issue at all (i.e. not even cross-checking some values in your passport).