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Demanding selfie to unsibscribe (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rambos@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hello nice people,

I've been using NiceHash app for some time 5-6 years ago. (It was a simple app for mining cryptocurrency and you get paid in bitcoin on their wallet, then you could transfer bitcoin to another wallet.) It was working fine until they got hacked (or fooled us) and lost all crypto. Luckily I didn't loose much like some guys did. I decided not to use the service anymore and I'm still receiving stupid e-mail newsletters. I tried to unsubscribe and It asks me for login, I know password, but don't have 2fa anymore. Also I don't have backup 16 words.

Now support told me that this is the only way and I feel ridiculous about taking selfie just to unsubscribe. Am I protected against this somehow? I live in Europe and I think Nicehash is located in neighbourhood.

And of course I never wanted to subscribe...and I don't think I ever verified account with a document.

What are my options other than just filtering that shitty domain as spam?

edit: typo

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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I felt bad for the person being manipulated like this but then I saw that this was a cryptomining service and I approve of this as a punishment

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Hehe, I dont blame you for approving that as a punishment. I feel lucky for not losing more than 50-100$

[–] DetectiveSanity@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

How exactly does that verify that you are the owner of the mentioned account nor verify legitimate interest in withdrawing consent from being included in their marketing campaigns!?

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Are they considered a bank? Because a be'abnk had to verify your identity and for that they can use a copy of your id.

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