People in USA and all around the world are being victims of
different kind of scammers. I believe that this is caused by the fact that not
serious solutions have been taken. I think that I have few ideas about how to reduce
those social media scams that are causing a lot of losses in money these days.
Some of them are even causing worse than just monetary losses. Thus, I can
think of two methods that help us:
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This first one is to require more personal
information that can identify each person such as a social security number and
make sure that it is confidential between the subscriber and the social media
platform. A lot of scammers don’t hesitate to do it because they don’t actually
provide their information, and they can even create an imaginary person that doesn’t
even exist. Since an information such as a social security number cannot be
created, they will have to either give their real one or be disqualified to
subscribe.
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In addition to personal information, I believe
the second idea is for the social media platforms to start requiring a surprise
identity verification. For example, they can require every person to have their
own picture on their profile, and the surprise identity verification can ask
them to take a picture of their face and upload it. If the person fails the
verification or don’t take the picture, it means that he/she have a fake
profile and his/her account should be suspended.
I believe that these two ideas combined would
be able to reduce the issue because people would be less likely to lie about
their profile on social media. Also, there will be more chance to catch a scammer.
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