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This is going from amusing-scam to transparent-scam really quickly.

I don't see any evidence of a scam; Dwolla uses similar social background checks. I think what we're seeing here is the difference between fraud detection and fraud prevention where they can't afford to be wrong.

Compared to all the bitcoin exchanges who require you to upload a passport scan?

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