Twitter Porn Names Scam

Re:Twitter Porn Names Scam by dsingleton on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @10:15AM (#605387)

Be careful doing this for a service with an offline/telecoms aspect. Both my bank and credit card companies ask to verify that information when I phone them,

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Re:Twitter Porn Names Scam by eru on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @11:18AM (#605492)

Chances are you can just answer "I wrote gibberish." and the guy on the phone will accept that.

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Re:Twitter Porn Names Scam by philwelch on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @02:41PM (#605936)

Or you could just mumble incoherently.

http://www.zug.com/pranks/visa/index03.html

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Re:Twitter Porn Names Scam by klein_waffle on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @01:12PM (#605746)

Unlikely. The person on the phone doesn't have the right to make judgments like that. Furthermore, if they were to allow it, that means that everyone who writes gibberish can have their account compromised by someone who guessed that it's gibberish.

Whenever i need to open an important account (say, with the power utility) I make up answers and record them on paper. Simple. Effective.

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Re:Twitter Porn Names Scam by randallsquared on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @01:56PM (#605848)

Simple. Effective.

Combustible.

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