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RE: Cookie Crumbs 3: Accountsquatting with a Bonus & Addressing a Neccessary Change in HF20
prove ownership of a prominent existing social media platform account
When I joined you could use facebook.com ownership to create a steemit.com account. The problem of course is that there are a lot of ways to circumvent this. You could pay users on mturk.com to create 1000's of facebook/steemit accounts at 10 cents each.
How do people create these accounts when so cheaply when they require a unique mobile phone SIM for each? I'm missing something I think.
You can actually register temporary virtual numbers for receiving texts at NO cost online, these numbers are usually under certain country codes, but I know for a fact that this has been used to sign up a multitude of accounts here in the past. I'll not leave a link here for obvious reasons.
Right. That makes sense now thanks. Is getting a valid (genuine) list of numbers not offered by any third-party service? It seems like it would make a great business, but maybe it's very difficult for some reason I still can't quite understand.