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Quadruple Opt-in? What about Quintuple opt-in?

by Johnathan
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Saw a posting on this - (the quadruple opt-in technique) -- which was kind of funny (it was a video making fun of certain things)...

But some companies are doing things along these lines...

Do you think it is too much, or necessary in todays environment?

Do you think it is overboard when say Google, when signing up for a google account, requires you to (in order to get paid):

a) Verify your phone number (they phone you, secret code)
b) Verify your physical address (send you a post card, you enter a PIN number)
c) Verify your e-mail address (double opt-in)
d) etc, etc?

The thing is, this is not the only company that is doing that... PayPal requires you to submit banking information to them that they say will keep secure, websites where you do commerce (telephoning through an automated system that uses voice recognition to 'see' if you have spoken the correct digits, and records your voice for 'training' purposes), etc, etc...

Is it getting a bit overboard, or do you feel this level of 'security' is necessary in doing e-commerce?
#optin #quadruple #quintuple
  • Profile picture of the author Eric Land
    Hey,

    It might be a lot of security but im sure it for a reason I'm sure at some point someone fell into a scam at paypal or another one of these e commerce sites it happens all the time and they lost a lot of money. So they probably sued paypal or e commerce and thats why they have all these securities.

    I could be wrong but that could be a reason

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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
    Originally Posted by Johnathan View Post

    Saw a posting on this - (the quadruple opt-in technique) -- which was kind of funny (it was a video making fun of certain things)...

    But some companies are doing things along these lines...

    Do you think it is too much, or necessary in todays environment?

    Do you think it is overboard when say Google, when signing up for a google account, requires you to (in order to get paid):

    a) Verify your phone number (they phone you, secret code)
    b) Verify your physical address (send you a post card, you enter a PIN number)
    c) Verify your e-mail address (double opt-in)
    d) etc, etc?

    The thing is, this is not the only company that is doing that... PayPal requires you to submit banking information to them that they say will keep secure, websites where you do commerce (telephoning through an automated system that uses voice recognition to 'see' if you have spoken the correct digits, and records your voice for 'training' purposes), etc, etc...

    Is it getting a bit overboard, or do you feel this level of 'security' is necessary in doing e-commerce?
    Verifying your identity to minimize fraud is not the same as multiple opt-in.

    That being said, if you add more layers to opting in, you will lose a lot of people at each additional step, but the ones that go through through every step are showing how much they want whatever they are opting in to.

    It may not always be the best trade off, but there may be times when adding extra layers could work to your benefit, if you know how.

    All the best,
    Michael
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  • Profile picture of the author James Jewett
    Yes it is starting to get a bit crazy. But if everybody played by the rules and were honest, maybe we wouldn't have all these secuity hoops to jump thru.

    Just my 2 cents,
    james
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