Read some posts from time to time on r/indiangaming and I definitely agree, TE is like the go to site for them whenever a post like that is made.
Yeah, didn't consider the aspect if something goes wrong.
Didn't know that such ideas have been clarified before. Still pretty new here.
Just an option bro would be much better than anything currently present
Whatever we have in the present is perfectly fine IMO. What happened yesterday was an unfortunate anomaly, which probably could have avoided if the buyers who got duped exercised more caution. Oh well I hope rest of members are wiser now and will perform due diligence instead of jumping at whatever sale thread that looks too good to be true.
+1 to this. I vote "No" to the whole "admin/mod running the marketplace" idea. Too high risks with too little reward. "Fees" won't mean shit when people get scammed. Knowing how many people can be a-holes, deals gone wrong will end up with the implications of the staff members too. That's not the result we want to see do we?
This doesn't make much sense in the current context of accounts getting compromised because it makes things easier for the hacker. They can just target the "verified" accounts and post sale threads from those.
How would they get access to your account + your government id. Once they steal the account, how will they get the original government id to show to the buyer which matches your profile?
@Renegade was talking about ryanrulez4ever. Information about amandeep's hacked account was shared in TE staff whatsapp group at 10.45PM yesterday, and in 10 mins the email id was restored and a link to reset password was sent to amandeep.
This is a privacy nightmare then, and imo such sensitive levels of kyc won't be conducive to such a forum, especially considering one in which many people have anonymous usernames. Sure, one could create a different account for selling to not associate it with regular account but that's just inefficient. I would still vote for buyers doing their own dd before making payment for a deal instead of a tech forum spoonfeeding them.
Also if you haven't been keeping with the news, there have been several KYC leaks recently (mobiquik and upstox namely), so I imagine it's not very unlikely tbh
+1. Think of TE mktplace just as an additional benefit for simple folks to offload their unused stuff. Its neither Olx nor an Ebay. Unfortunately with most folks at home and the other forum dying, the whole crowd is coming to TE. This is bound to happen if ppl cannot identify the so many red flags mentioned earlier. All the KYC and Escrow ideas would be unnecessary, full of legal nightmares and not foolproof anyways.
SSO with Facebook is there. Can't remember if Gmail was also an option.
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Fullfiling these child like criteria are like walk in a park for fraudsters who nowadays are so much experts in technical and psychological stuff hypnotising buyers with their msg and talks oviously , and out of 10 people 3 people gets trapped in their talks , it's like those army fraud who edit everything and many many more these types of people don't have shame and go to any level even using indian army name for these heinous crimes
My observation may not be correct, but it seems only the first one is working. Looking at some recent listings, members who are 1 month old but less than 25 posts are able to post sales thread
