Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread david
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, lopser wrote: Guess what? Account seems to be compromised? Use the information from "Account Recovery Options." Duh. ;-) are you aware of the trouble that Mat Honan just had to go through as a result of people using the insecure "account recovery options" of apple?

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread lopser
> From: Tom Limoncelli [mailto:t...@whatexit.org] > > What method would you prefer we use to > verify you are who you say you are? I will gladly forward your > suggestions to the product group (no promises, but I am very > interested in what you suggest) You know what? Nevermind Verified by Vis

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread lopser
I hope this will be my final comment on this thread, but I figured out what went wrong. About 6 months ago, my 2yr old daughter was playing with the tablet, and spent $50. I got an email thanking me for the purchase, so I immediately tried to refund it (but I was too late), and I searched arou

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread lopser
> From: Phil Pennock [mailto:lopsa-t...@spodhuis.org] > > Much as I have my own gripes about Google's customer service, I'm not > sure how this is relevant to technical discussions for LOPSA. Google Wallet is your only option to pay for Google Apps. I'm lucky that this happened to my home accou

Re: [lopsa-tech] Speaking of Google....

2012-08-22 Thread Jack Coats
We always had to sacrifice a cat and sprinkle the blood on the back of each new server we put in the data center... oops, it wasn't a Google data center :) Yep, some time it was only done 'virtually', but in fact we never seemed to put another server in a rack without 'blood sacrifice' by one of t

Re: [lopsa-tech] Speaking of Google....

2012-08-22 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Paul Graydon wrote: I trust you remembered to sacrifice a pure and spotless dove on a marble alter under the light of the full moon before attempting to do this? That's what I'm doing wrong! All I can find around here are grackles. -- Matt It's not what I know that count

Re: [lopsa-tech] Speaking of Google....

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Graydon
I trust you remembered to sacrifice a pure and spotless dove on a marble alter under the light of the full moon before attempting to do this? Paul On 08/22/2012 12:23 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote: Since there's a thread going on about one part of Google, I thought I would ask about another part of

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread Billy Vierra
Quick bit of background, about 9 years ago I worked for one of the largest cc processing companies in the world (they processed like 9/10 cc transactions in the US). The issue is actually a lot more complicated than you are realizing / probably have any reason to know. Let's start with how a t

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread lopser
> From: lopser > > But there is a Click 2 Call form there. I enter my phone number, and they > will > call me. Which I did. And I'll write a little about, in another email... I got on the phone with a representative from Google Wallet. I explained that I first noticed I wasn't able to purch

[lopsa-tech] Speaking of Google....

2012-08-22 Thread Matt Lawrence
Since there's a thread going on about one part of Google, I thought I would ask about another part of Google. I've been using Blogger since before Google aquired them and I have discovered that there is no way to delete a blog from the list of blogs I am following, I just get an error message

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2012-08-22 at 21:57 +, lopser wrote: > And I'll write a little about, in another email... Much as I have my own gripes about Google's customer service, I'm not sure how this is relevant to technical discussions for LOPSA. If we're debating PCI compliance and security implications of proces

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread lopser
> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > On Behalf Of Jonathan Nicol > > https://support.google.com/wallet/bin/request.py?contact_type=wallet_ge > neral > "To give us a call directly, please call 1-855-492-5538. " > > That wasn't very hard to find... How did y

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread Jonathan Nicol
https://support.google.com/wallet/bin/request.py?contact_type=wallet_general "To give us a call directly, please call 1-855-492-5538. " That wasn't very hard to find... Quoting lopser : From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Smift l> Googl

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread lopser
> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > On Behalf Of Josh Smift > > l> Google is not attempting to process the transaction. It's not being > l> declined by the credit card company. It's google policy. > > Have you contacted Google support Have I contacted wh

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread Josh Smift
l> Google is not attempting to process the transaction. It's not being l> declined by the credit card company. It's google policy. Have you contacted Google support to find out whether this is their policy, and if so, what the policy actually is? It sounds like most people who use Google Wallet h