verification process

verification process

I'm very leery about japancupid.com's verification process. They want a photo copy of a passport, driver's license, or something official. Copy of passport? This is a fast-track method of having one's identity stolen. Lost American passports typically sell for about $18k on the black market. Terrorist organizations reap the benefits of having formatting information to be sure. Please do not surrender any photo copies of any official documents. Even eHarmony doesn't ask for this kind of information.

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The site is based in Queensland Australia, it's called Japancupid.com, and they require passport information(or sensitive), and they're main office for correspondence is linked to a P.O. Box. Sounds great. t(-.-)t

if you are worried about your passport info do what I did and black out the numbers that mean anything. (the passport number in particular) I used an old expired passport and blacked out the importent numbers they had no problem using this. since they just wanted picture/with your name for varification. and if they can steal a passport without the passport number they didn't need the passport image to begin with...

If they were stealing passports, it would interfere with the match finding aspect of the site by creating problems for the members when they travel to meet. Further, there do not seem to be any complaints of this nature about the website on record. While this is an obvious risk, the site seems legitimate, especially since it's one in many match finding sites by the same people. Some of these sites have over 1000 logged on a day, so if they are a phishing scam, it would turn up in a simple google search, and legal action would be taken by their local government.

Correction. I meant "over 1000 on a day" as in when you are on the site that day personally. I correctly should have typed that some of the sites always have over 1000 members logged on, which means thousands check in to their account a day (with many not doing so every day). You'd think a phishing scam with thousands of would-be victims would have been complained against, filed against, and legally taken offline. So, there's likely very low chance of them stealing identities or passports. Also, I have personal experience of them listening and taking action if you catch and report creeps on their site. Would a scam site have bothered to remove a predatorial white American guy harassing women on their site? I'm thinking no.