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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Demanding selfie to unsibscribe (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rambos@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hello nice people,

I've been using NiceHash app for some time 5-6 years ago. (It was a simple app for mining cryptocurrency and you get paid in bitcoin on their wallet, then you could transfer bitcoin to another wallet.) It was working fine until they got hacked (or fooled us) and lost all crypto. Luckily I didn't loose much like some guys did. I decided not to use the service anymore and I'm still receiving stupid e-mail newsletters. I tried to unsubscribe and It asks me for login, I know password, but don't have 2fa anymore. Also I don't have backup 16 words.

Now support told me that this is the only way and I feel ridiculous about taking selfie just to unsubscribe. Am I protected against this somehow? I live in Europe and I think Nicehash is located in neighbourhood.

And of course I never wanted to subscribe...and I don't think I ever verified account with a document.

What are my options other than just filtering that shitty domain as spam?

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[–] iamak@infosec.pub 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you really want to be keep using the service, get a non watermarked random guy's pic (he must be holding something) from the internet, write what they want on a paper and edit the pic so that the guy is holding what you wrote. This might not work because of the personal ID requirement but trying it doesn't hurt.

They usually have a face detection algorithm running along with ocr and rarely check if this is a stock photo. I need to use Instagram to be in the loop. They blocked my account for using Barinsta so I did this and they unblocked it.

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hehe this made me laugh. Thank you!

Your story is also about nicehash? I might do that if I manage to digure out that pic. I will try

[–] iamak@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

No. I was banned from Instagram. Good luck! Hope it works for you :p