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Posted By: Ben Dover In Response To: eCurrency, the threat of identity theft and some thoughts of my own (Sean)
Tuesday, 25 January 2005, at 5:22 p.m.
His program is not at all different only overpriced and dishonest. I would for example would have hated paying $300 to find out that DXGold is not accepting DXmerchants until further notice and that there are free websites that teach you mazu's course!
> Good morning everyone!
> Dave Bennett replied to my email to him as follows:
> "Hi! DXPowerTeam does not ask for any ID documentation; only DXGold.
> All e-currencies will require ID’ing accounts before long; that’s the
> whole direction that the Patriot Act is taking us in. All of us have been
> used to that for some time.
> "What can they do with your Driver’s License? Write you a ticket?
> What about your second form of ID? Use a Student ID. What can they do with
> that? Get a free swim at your university’s pool? What about if you send
> them an electricity bill to verify your current address? Get your heat
> shut off…?"
> I'm generally the kind of guy who gives people the benefit of the doubt.
> That is usually understood by financial people as, "spectacular
> idiot." In this case, I didn't want to be a complete moron so I went
> to the ftc website and looked for myself. Here's the link:
> "http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/understanding_idt.html#1"
> Now, what I read in there shows me that there is a level of individuality.
> Let's say you are a ID thief. You get all the information you need.
> According to the website above, you would then use it to open accounts,
> get credit cards, etc. Its a one-to-one thing.
> The other thing to consider is whether or not this is a multi-functional
> rip off. Are we to assume that this group is collecting money from people,
> giving money to some to keep them unaware, has been operating for 4 years
> doing so... is planning on pulling the plug at some time and is operating
> the largest scale world-wide identity theft program in history?
> Isn't Vanuatu (Van-ah-wah-too) the island where they did the Survivor
> "reality" TV series?
> One thing I'm really, really curious about is the Matt Gagnon involvment.
> I realize that MAZU's offering a different program from DXGold but is it
> using the same Vanuatu connection? If that were a scam, wouldn't Matt be
> putting himself in BIG jeopardy? Wouldn't the guys like Dave Bennett be
> traceable? These are the folks asking us to join up... and they don't seem
> to be hiding like crooks.
> I'm on the fence on this but certainly curious. My big thing is to
> understand the money transfers and precisely how cash is generated. If we
> all understood that well, that may alleviate the other concerns or launch
> more accurate concerns. I think its the place to start.
> Thanks,
> Sean
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