Hello everybody,
I'd like to make a comment on this particular case as one of
supervisors of WebMoney payment system.
Your case shows that any payment system HAS to have means of
identification of the client, otherwise it CAN NOT take ANY legal action
against fraud. These can be: personal certificates of keys, OR (do not
laugh) verified personal details of client. The latter is used in
traditional financial systems.
I'd ask you to think about this from the point of view of payment
system:
In fact there is NO WAY to identify fraud by "pure online" methods.
There are only more or less evident "signs" of it.
If "unusual" IP is used to access the account this can equally mean
that: somebody stole the means of identification, the client went to
"some distant location", he used "proxy(s)", he passed his
identification to somebody else. There is literraly NO WAY to
distinguish (except the "proxy") between these situations for supervisor
of payment system. What does he do? He does nothing. Keys and
certificates do not add much to this situation, they are simply much
harder to steal, but again they can be passed to another person.
This is the "Ahilles heel" of all "pseudonymous" systems. Please, always
remember this.
Regards Alexander V. Fedotov
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