Safe to give mfc my ID?

[hidedean]

Really sorry to bother you lovely models and other MFC members. sadly I'm in a bit of an issue. I've been using MFC for about 7 months now. Up until recently, i did the occasional tips for flash and maybe a group spending $20-50 a month. but I've recently come across some extra income so instead of waiting for hours for countdowns to finish or giving the public a free show. Decided to start taking models I liked into privates/true privates.

So during one of my privates when I was trying to add more tokens for more time my card got declined. My bank detected "fraud" and was going to reverse the charges so I had to embarrassingly explain that I was buying porn. so afterward they unblocked my account.

Now just a couple days ago I was about to do a tpvt and bought some tokens. but immediately, after I bought the tokens my account, logged out and I got an email from MFC saying my acct is frozen. After emailing them asking why they said I could possibly get my acc back. if I send them my government id and photo. so my question is that safe or a bad idea? My whole point of using cam sites was being able to play with beautiful women privately while staying anonymous

sorry if this was incoherent.
tl:dr is safe to give MFC your info!

 

[MFCGod]

Yes, it's safe

 

[Influenced]

Yes, it's safe

^

 

[HiGirlsRHot]

I've never had to give MFC my id. Frankly, given the lax security I've seen on how MFC handles password and other issues, I'd be concerned. I pretty much never give out my true birthday and I'm careful about my social security # and my ID contains both of those pieces of info. (I could care less about credit card numbers since I'm protected from fraud) But realistically there probably isn't a lot to be worried about, and maybe if I was really horny private I'd change my mind..

 

[Tilly]

it's the only way to increase your spending limit. it's the way they ensure you're not going to come back and cry "credit card fraud!"

 

[MojitosJourney]

I'm not sure if the word of a random cam model means much, or does a "vibe," but for what it's worth... from meeting the guys who run MFC at various cam conventions, I have always gotten a real non-sketchy, trustworthy vibe from them.

Basically, MFC is not going to rip you off or sell your information, if you were concerned about that at all with sharing your ID - it's a highly respected site with a LOT to loose if they messing with people's personal information. That being said, hackers can happen.

 

[Tilly]

I mean, all the models send MFC their ID.

*chants* one of us, one of us!

 

[BobbyB]

I'm not sure if the word of a random cam model means much, or does a "vibe," but for what it's worth... from meeting the guys who run MFC at various cam conventions, I have always gotten a real non-sketchy, trustworthy vibe from them.

Basically, MFC is not going to rip you off or sell your information, if you were concerned about that at all with sharing your ID - it's a highly respected site with a LOT to loose if they messing with people's personal information. That being said, hackers can happen.

Yep, hacking is the big problem.....
I would recommend 2 steps :

1) use a contact email address not related to your real ID, so if the email address gets published you don't have a problem

2) use a pre paid card which you top up for each token purchase, so if the card details get stolen you have a very limited damage......

Nothing sure on the internet....

 

[AmberCutie]

2) use a pre paid card which you top up for each token purchase, so if the card details get stolen you have a very limited damage......

MFC doesn't store your credit card info.

 

[BobbyB]

MFC doesn't store your credit card info.

In general you are correct, but if the website is hacked that can mean that you are directed to a fraudulent payment page and the details you enter are recorded by the bad guys.... this is a general risk, nothing what MFC can do against such attacks, every company can get hacked....

 

[EspiKvlt]

You're at risk for ANY website getting hacked, from your bank account to Amazon. MFC itself isn't the problem there.

 

[Ann_Sulu]

In general you are correct, but if the website is hacked that can mean that you are directed to a fraudulent payment page and the details you enter are recorded by the bad guys.... this is a general risk, nothing what MFC can do against such attacks, every company can get hacked....

Technically that would be the billing site getting hacked rather than the cam site.

 

[BobbyB]

Technically that would be the billing site getting hacked rather than the cam site.

The way it works normally is that the camsite has a link to the billing site to handle all payments, but if this link ON THE CAMSITE is changed then the problem starts, so you need to hack the camsite to place the fraudulent link on the camsite, so you don't get to the billingsite at all instead you end up on a fake billing site...... but sometimes your details are forwarded to the intended billing site so you get your tokens and confirmation and you think all went fine....but all your details are recorded for further use....

 

[BobbyB]

You're at risk for ANY website getting hacked, from your bank account to Amazon. MFC itself isn't the problem there.

Get me right, I don't want to pick on MFC, I just want to point out some risks and options to minimize them.....
In general every site can be hacked, but if you look at a Bank or Amazon then you can can expect whole departmens with higly paid security experts taking care of things and even that is no guarantee that things are secure.

To put it friendly I think MFC has less resources available for security than a bank or Amazon....

 

[Lorelei]

Yep, hacking is the big problem.....
I would recommend 2 steps :

1) use a contact email address not related to your real ID, so if the email address gets published you don't have a problem

2) use a pre paid card which you top up for each token purchase, so if the card details get stolen you have a very limited damage......

Nothing sure on the internet....

Using a prepaid card will eventually not work out well—MFC has frozen token-buying abilities for several of my regulars who only trusted prepaid cards. MFC asked them for their IDs to unfreeze their accounts. Most guys using pre-paid cards don't want to give their IDs for vaguely paranoid reasons (or occasionally because they're underage ). So in the end, they were unable to tip and never contributed financially ever again.

 

[BobbyB]

Using a prepaid card will eventually not work out well—MFC has frozen token-buying abilities for several of my regulars who only trusted prepaid cards. MFC asked them for their IDs to unfreeze their accounts. Most guys using pre-paid cards don't want to give their IDs for vaguely paranoid reasons (or occasionally because they're underage ). So in the end, they were unable to tip and never contributed financially ever again.

Ever heard of the Ashley Madison hack.....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/18/ashley_madison_download/
Some 33 million accounts potentially stuffed full of compromising information have been leaked, we're told. That's 32 million unique email addresses, including thousands of US government and military addresses. Names, home addresses, phone numbers, relationship statuses, personal habits, credit-card transaction logs, and even some credit card numbers have been found in the databases, it's claimed.

 

[Lorelei]

Ever heard of the Ashley Madison hack.....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/18/ashley_madison_download/
Some 33 million accounts potentially stuffed full of compromising information have been leaked, we're told. That's 32 million unique email addresses, including thousands of US government and military addresses. Names, home addresses, phone numbers, relationship statuses, personal habits, credit-card transaction logs, and even some credit card numbers have been found in the databases, it's claimed.

I'm well aware of the Ashley Madison hack, thanks! Everyone in the adult industry likely is. In that particular case, yes, a ton of information was leaked. The site was unethical, regardless of your feelings on cheating—they were scamming people using fake ladies who were supposedly interested in the site's premium members. That said, even that hack only revealed the last 4 digits of people's credit card information, financially speaking.

Have a Wikipedia article instead of a newspaper piece from the early days of the hack when rumors were flying and no one knew how bad the damage was going to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach. (The articles you cited were from before the second data dump.)

In any case.

1) I replied to your post to say that pre-paid cards are not a long-term answer on MFC. You're welcome to your opinion about that but it doesn't change what I wrote.

2) If MFC has reason to suspect you're behaving in a fraudulent manner or might be underage, you have every right to not comply with their request and discontinue your use of the service. You don't have a right to use the website.

3) If being discovered to have used MFC is going to be as serious an issue for you as it was for a lot of the men exposed in the Ashley Madison breach, perhaps using a camsite isn't your best bet for sexual online entertainment.

 

[BobbyB]

I'm well aware of the Ashley Madison hack, thanks! Everyone in the adult industry likely is. In that particular case, yes, a ton of information was leaked. The site was unethical, regardless of your feelings on cheating—they were scamming people using fake ladies who were supposedly interested in the site's premium members. That said, even that hack only revealed the last 4 digits of people's credit card information, financially speaking.

Have a Wikipedia article instead of a newspaper piece from the early days of the hack when rumors were flying and no one knew how bad the damage was going to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach. (The articles you cited were from before the second data dump.)

In any case.

1) I replied to your post to say that pre-paid cards are not a long-term answer on MFC. You're welcome to your opinion about that but it doesn't change what I wrote.

2) If MFC has reason to suspect you're behaving in a fraudulent manner or might be underage, you have every right to not comply with their request and discontinue your use of the service. You don't have a right to use the website.

3) If being discovered to have used MFC is going to be as serious an issue for you as it was for a lot of the men exposed in the Ashley Madison breach, perhaps using a camsite isn't your best bet for sexual online entertainment.

First I must say that I am from Europe, so maybe some things are different to the US....

1) My angle regarding Pre paid cards is simply that if the details are stolen the thiefs cannot spent too much money with them, so less hassle when dealing with banks to dispute charges and so on.....but as an alternative you could use a debit card from a seperate account with only little money on it and top it up when needed, so that would be a regular card then in MFC eyes....

2) Sure MFC can decide with whom they want to do business, but we are talking only about tokens here, plenty of content available as a guest, with just a box to click to prove that I am not underage....

3) As mentioned above as a guest there is plenty of content available with no personal details required......and if personal details are required just make up some phantasy stuff and don't use an email which could cause you issues....

 

[Guy]

Using a prepaid card will eventually not work out well—MFC has frozen token-buying abilities for several of my regulars who only trusted prepaid cards. MFC asked them for their IDs to unfreeze their accounts. Most guys using pre-paid cards don't want to give their IDs for vaguely paranoid reasons (or occasionally because they're underage ). So in the end, they were unable to tip and never contributed financially ever again.

Were they gift cards, or prepaid cards that are designed to be an alternative to a bank account? https://www.giftcards.com/gcgf/reloadable-prepaid-cards

 

[AudriTwo]

NO YOU CANT TRUST ANYONE!




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