Age Verification (simple question)

I've browsed blogs and forums but can't find an answer to the simple question:

I want to age-verify myself on secondlife, how do I do it?

Go to your "My Account" page on the secondlife website and among the links on the right hand side (Your Account, subsection Account) there's a link.....

https://secure-web5.secondlife.com/account/verification.php

That is a link to the form. If you've already successfully verified the account you're logged in to the website with, it will tell you that you're already verified. Otherwise, fill in the info and the account that you're logged in with will get verified. To verify multiple accounts, log off the website and log back in with the next account, and repeat the process.

It's official. The verification is pointless. With no effort I verified an alt of mine as being legally Elvis Presley.

Fantastic.

I heard this in the other thread. This is really sad. Give your SSN or DL to a third party when you can simply use the information of the deceased. Makes you wonder if anyone at LL tested to verify that you were using YOUR OWN verification? This is just too funny. Sad really. Now instead of unverified adolescents running amok in SL, we'll have 3 million verified Elvis's or Marilyn Monroe's.

And Hilda Whitcher. I should test her invalidated SSN. I just don't have complete information on her.

However, you just committed the crime of identity theft, for which they can take legal action against you. Whereas lying on a yes/no question relating to your age is not a criminal act...

Yes. you've just committed fraud. On the other hand, i read in another thread that no where does it actually SAY that you need to put in your own info. So whatever.

but but ...ahaha too funny! Thanks for the RL lol

They say they do not keep any information so they cannot prove it...

Also, I think as soon as you get to a place where, clicking on "Privacy Policy" takes you nowhere, all bets are off.

Good luck to them, you think I put in my own street address when either registering this account (which BTW, is the alt account I age-verified) or age verifying?
Worst they can do is ban the account, but it's an alt, so what do I care? I after all did it only to point out a flaw in the system:
http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/
Any name returned should give enough info to age-verify (site found through Google). Which means that Aristotle-Integrity (or whatever the company is) hasn't purged the dead from it's database, and dead people's SSNs (and other relevant info, such as last known address) are freely available to the public.

So, in other words, they lied to LL about their "enrollment" figures?

"Welcome to the IDV tutorial. I'm Kafka Linden........"

Isn't lying on a yes/no question relating to age to receive a service, the criminal act of obtaining services or goods by deception.

Matthew

Not when the identity is of a well known deceased or fictitious person, in which case it falls under any number of laws regarding satire. Verifying as Danger Mouse works as well by the way.

Who said he was lying about his age? All he said was that he verified as someone not-him.

I didn't say he was lying about his age.

I was merely answering Ceera's point - namely that for a minor to get on the grid they would have to lie about their age on the signup page, whereas to age verify they would have to give false information to the verification process. Ceera was arguing that the former would not involve a criminal act, whereas the latter would (namely that of identity theft), so LL would be in a stronger legal position with age verification.

I disagree - in both cases, there is a potential criminal act of obtaining a service by deception, whereas, as has been illustrated you can age verify with completely fictitious information which would not be identity theft.

So I'd argue that the age verification does not offer LL any additional legal protection than a simple sign up checkbox (although it may offer additional insurance courtesy of Integrity). To be honest, I doubt Integrity would allow anything to reach a court case - a high profile case on how a child bypassed their system would be highly embarrasing given their advertising claims.

Matthew

So you guys can enter random crap and verify, when I can't verify using my real info. \o/

That fits my experience too .

My alt verified as a random person in the phonebook, with my birthdate and a fictional (incorrect at that) ID number. I never expected it to actually take .

Then I tried to verify myself and it failed, but that seemed to be due my street name having an accent in it since changing it to local equivalent of "Fake Street 123" verified me just fine .

So all in all: it doesn't match the name with the given address (or that the address in fact exists), it doesn't match birthdate with the supplied name and it doesn't even do basic verification of the ID number (an ID number here has a rather strict format).

I think someone at Aristotle got annoyed with LL complaining about a low success rate and flipped a switch to give a 100% success rate .

Does that alt have another alt following him around and announcing when he leaves buildings and stuff?

Does that alt have another alt following him around and announcing when you he leaves buildings and stuff?

OMG, that would be awesome and hilarious.

... And who'll be the ones putting in an ID that's not of them to be 'Age verified'? Kids!

And kids in many countries don't have laws like that applied to them.

Hey how come it takes all of 2 seconds for it to check your information?