{"id":310,"date":"2014-02-13T02:40:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T02:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2014-02-13T02:40:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T02:40:06","slug":"google-wallet-verification-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/google-wallet-verification-farce\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Wallet verification farce&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I get an e-mail from Google stating that my Google Wallet has been suspended as they cannot verify my identity. So I got to Google Wallet online and see the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-311 aligncenter\" alt=\"verify\" src=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1.jpg 702w, https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1-300x66.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Right, OK.<\/strong> So &#8216;How exactly do I verify my identity to a faceless dominant organisation like Google?&#8217;. It&#8217;s not like I can pop into the local branch and do that. Anyway, I decide to look for a contact number so I can ask some questions. I find a simple Contact Us button on the verification page&#8230;.but, weirdly, each time I click it I get sent back to the &#8216;Account Verification&#8217; page &#8211; i&#8217;m in a loop &amp; that is frankly ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I decide to see what ID they need to verify my identity, hmmmm &#8211; Government ID eh?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-312\" alt=\"Gov ID\" src=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2.jpg 402w, https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Well, NO!<\/strong> I&#8217;m not giving you any of that. Who are ya???!! But that&#8217;s not all, they still want to verify your address so next they ask for:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-313\" alt=\"address ID\" src=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/3.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/3.jpg 670w, https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/3-300x85.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>NO bloody WAY Google.<\/strong> I&#8217;m not giving you my identity documents. Sorry. But. I. Don&#8217;t.Trust.You.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Regardless of their security and privacy policy stating how &#8216;we take seriously your data security and privacy&#8217;? Sure, take it seriously. I&#8217;d rather I could trust you to keep it safe rather than just take a blinkin serious stance on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So bye bye Google Wallet, you did well while you worked. Shame you didn&#8217;t accept PayPal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oh wait. Just realised. Google Wallet wants to BE PayPal. Good Luck with that Larry, Sergey &amp; Eric.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>[If you verify your identity first, then I might consider sending you mine :]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I get an e-mail from Google stating that my Google Wallet has been suspended&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[64,28,65,62,63,61],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p502c8-50","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}