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[TrolleySwag]

Have fun giving Facebook even more private information.

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[tirediron]

Well, I have to say that I see the whole thing as a waste of time now that I've done it. All I had to do was press a button, facebook telephoned me, and a recording gave me a 4 digit code to enter and *poof* it was done. There's nothing to verify the legitimacy of my business whatesoever, rather all it does is rely on the fact that the telephone # I have listed is linked to my business, but so what? I could have the most fly-by-night business going and as long as I can answer the telephone # listed on my page, I can be verified.

Pointless!

 

[Overread]

Tired that almost sounds like its just email verification with a telephone - which honestly a good few web services are now trying to push on people simply as its another point of contact and a bit harder to steal than an email (lose your primary email that everything is registered to and you're in for a nightmare trying to verify your accounts on places again and regain access).


FB were never going to be Trading Standards; however it sounds like they've not really put too much effort into this one if the only proof is a telephone call and code. Although Tired you said you had to submit licence numbers so surely that was the proof and the rest is just verification and account security (and data harvesting of course).

 

[tirediron]

...Although Tired you said you had to submit licence numbers so surely that was the proof and the rest is just verification and account security (and data harvesting of course).

No, that's just it; I didn't. I assumed that I would have to, based on the OP, but in fact I provided NO proof whatsoever that I actually operate a licensed business.

 

[Overread]

So business authentication just means you've got a telephone. Did they require it to be a landline or would a mobile do?


Although even then any shady person can easily setup a landline to a no-where place and I doubt after verification that Amazon would have any need of it save for dispute resolution (and shady groups would flee at the first mention of them)

 

[tirediron]

No land-line required... my cell worked just fine!

 

[SquarePeg]

hmmm - I wonder if the tel# was the ultimate goal, not any type of genuine business verification. I have noticed lately that every time I sign in to FB I get a pop up asking me to add a phone number for verification purposes.

 

[robbins.photo]

No land-line required... my cell worked just fine!

So if I were hypothetically running an illegal photography business out of the back of a flower shop and just happened to have a burner cell...

Lol

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[snowbear]

Well, it is Facebook.

Hmmm . . . I wonder if I could run an illegal florist business out of the back of a Photo studio.

 

[tirediron]

hmmm - I wonder if the tel# was the ultimate goal, not any type of genuine business verification. I have noticed lately that every time I sign in to FB I get a pop up asking me to add a phone number for verification purposes.

Possibly, 'though in this case there's 0 gain for them; my business # has been posted on the page since day 1!

 

[ClickAddict]

Keep in Mind tirediron is in Canada. Can you possibly imagine FB having at their disposal a means to verify every business tax information in the world? Probably not. I'd be curious to know if a US businesses can also just answer a phone. (I'm in Canada as well so I would guess it would work the same for me as it did for tirediron.)

 

[tirediron]

Keep in Mind tirediron is in Canada. Can you possibly imagine FB having at their disposal a means to verify every business tax information in the world? Probably not. I'd be curious to know if a US businesses can also just answer a phone. (I'm in Canada as well so I would guess it would work the same for me as it did for tirediron.)

Fair point, but it would seem counter-productive to allow a more "fake-able" form of verification for non-US businesses. If anything, I would expect them to simply not verify non-US-based businesses.

 

[Vtec44]

My business has been verified for a long time now. It doesn't change anything other than verified that the public record for the business phone number is correct. My registered business phone on my business paperwork is actually not the one that they called to verify, so I don't even know what's the process for them collect my information.

 

[EIngerson]

Cool I guess, but how are "Facebook investigators" supposed to prove that you charged for photos?

edit: I guess I'm late to that party, but seriously….What would you really expect them to do?

 

[Overread]

Well they have billions in income each year they could setup a system of verification even if its just cross checking records with government. However this system sounds more like marketing or a way for the guy in charge of getting more people to give over their telephon number to up his quota.