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I needed a temporary Facebook account recently. I put a fake but plausible name and I did what I had to do. That account was blocked in no less than 20min, asking for my ID and my phone number.

I’m pretty sure that Facebook is unofficially « closed » for new « non verified » accounts.

And that’s not even surprising : literally everybody was on Facebook a decade ago, it’s definitely not the social network of the younger generation, and nobody who had the occasion to register 10 years ago is going to change its mind today. So the vast majority of new registrations must be spam bots.



New service: subscription identity - buy a real identity of a real person from some poor country and use it for yourself in the glorious developed world.

Official government issued ID, passport, photos, video verification available for a fee.


There are already marketing scams that involve renting out one's Facebook account so that third party entities can make posts with them:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...

Come to think of it, that could be a way to get accounts with which to use Oculus with.


BrightID validates you as real and unique, but without revealing any actual IRL information to people consuming and using the identity via their apps.

https://www.brightid.org/


Does the uniqueness criterion prevent it from being useful to people who wanr to create multiple, independent accounts as is being discussed in this thread?


Also known as identity theft


If you don't steal someone's identity is it still identity theft? Ie they give use of their identity to you voluntarily for using these services.


If something is given with permission, it's not theft.


That's not what is happening in this scenario.


I wonder if they restrict Google Voice or other VoIP numbers.


They do. Just get a burner pay-as-you-go phone.




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