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Re: Send money with Gmail

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Hi everyone. I've been working on this at Google for a while and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. If you don't want to ask here, feel free to email me at AT google.com. There might be a delay in responding if I get a lot of messages or if you have a particularly challenging question.

Any idea when this will be available for other countries? Canada? Europe? thanks!

Canada has had Interac email money transfers for around a decade, without any lock-in to a particular "wallet service" or email host.

This is so late to the market as to be irrelevant.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Any idea when this will be available for other countries? Canada? Europe? thanks!

Canada has had Interac email money transfers for around a decade, without any lock-in to a particular "wallet service" or email host. This is so late to the market as to be irrelevant.

interac is not free, this is

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They've already started to bite the bullet and provide real customer service with Google Fiber. We could be witnessing a huge change in their institutional attitude toward customer service.

Will better service from Google Fiber, and other large providers, push Comcast to provide a better customer service/support experience?

No, those who care about service will switch to google fiber. Then Comcast will see that the number of complaints about their service is decreasing, and go on to praise their employees. For now companies which should be scared of Google Fiber aren't. It took the US years and lot of tax money to build the infrastructure which current ISPs own. Google has done parts of one city with only 2 more on the way. It will take a long time until their business practices cause them failure against fiber competitors. ISPs aren't interested in improving their networks, only in making money off of the money they've invested into at this point.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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The part I can't figure out is I did "verify my identity" using my legal name, addrs, last4ssn and bday. And it responded back in about 1 second "verified". So how does that work? (Other than perhaps they already have a detailed file on me LOL)

Better yet, mine failed. I'm presented with this page: http://i.imgur.com/hPqLd58.png On the phone, I'm told roughly: "I'm going to ask you four questions to verify your identity. The questions are based on publicly available data." [hold] (He just asked me the last four of my social and the year of my birth. And my address. And is now preparing four questions. - Where was my SSN issued? Multiple choice. - Which mont…

> Where was my SSN issued? Multiple choice. - Which month was I born? Multiple choice.

I am fairly certain both of those can be determined with reasonable accuracy from your SSN itself. (the middle two digits of your SSN should roughly correspond with the month of issue (likely the month of birth), and the first three digits should give you the area).

Edit: Nevermind, it only asked for the last four of your SSN I guess.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Better yet, mine failed. I'm presented with this page: http://i.imgur.com/hPqLd58.png On the phone, I'm told roughly: "I'm going to ask you four questions to verify your identity. The questions are based on publicly available data." [hold] (He just asked me the last four of my social and the year of my birth. And my address. And is now preparing four questions. - Where was my SSN issued? Multiple choice. - Which mont…

> Where was my SSN issued? Multiple choice. - Which month was I born? Multiple choice. I am fairly certain both of those can be determined with reasonable accuracy from your SSN itself. (the middle two digits of your SSN should roughly correspond with the month of issue (likely the month of birth), and the first three digits should give you the area). Edit: Nevermind, it only asked for the last four of your SSN I gue…

Still, of the questions asked, last four of my social were the most secure in my opinion, and it's fairly easy to come by that information.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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> Where was my SSN issued? Multiple choice. - Which month was I born? Multiple choice. I am fairly certain both of those can be determined with reasonable accuracy from your SSN itself. (the middle two digits of your SSN should roughly correspond with the month of issue (likely the month of birth), and the first three digits should give you the area). Edit: Nevermind, it only asked for the last four of your SSN I gue…

Still, of the questions asked, last four of my social were the most secure in my opinion, and it's fairly easy to come by that information.

Oh yes. I agree absolutely.
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