She said the company added measures to boost security on Yihaodian.com, including the addition of account-verification codes.
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"You received this notice from eBay because it has come to our attention that your current account has caused interruptions with other eBay members and eBay requires immediate verification for your account, " the email said.
The perp opens a single account, signs up 20 cards to that account, and the verification process goes into action.
Suppose a share-trading account is closed for lack of verification: who bears the risk if the price of the shares in the account fall?
The company points out that customers can't bank with the card or use it outside the U.S. But other stored-value cards, often branded by Visa or MasterCard, can be accessed for cash via atms worldwide and reloaded with cash online or at checkout counters without a bank account or face-to-face identity verification.
Medicare never calls anyone to ask for verification of Medicare, Social Security or bank account numbers.
To qualify for the complimentary service, active military members must have an account in good standing and provide the carrier with deployment verification -- that's it, no other hoops to jump through.
Before you can sign into your Google account from a new computer or device, you have to enter a verification code that Google sends to your phone.
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Two-step verification drastically reduces the chances of someone stealing the personal information from your e-mail account because hackers would have to not only get a password and your user name, they would also have to have access to the mobile phone to which the code is sent.
The "two-factor" verification system, which will be optional, asks users to register a phone number, e-mail account and six-digit code that would have to be entered, via text message, each time they log in to the site.
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