This is why you don't give your ID to social media
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I lost access to my LinkedIn account when they recently asked for my gov't ID. They have my real name, work experience, work email, even my credit card, etc. They still demanded my gov't ID for "community safety." Facebook pulled the same crap and that was the last time I used FB. Twitter did the same and I made a new acct. Meanwhile, jackasses on MIGA.lose and Reddit both tell me that it doesn't happen, "but even if it does happen, so what?" I'm not giving my ID to any damn website!
Awhile back, I knew someone who was using an eBay account of someone deceased to continue to sell off their estate items as per their wishes.
The decades-old account eventually got shut down before the succession planning could be carried out because eBay locked them out of the account requesting a copy of their active passport.
Pretty sure it was a sitewide change and had nothing to do with any suspicious activity due to the estate sale.
I can see the argument in this particular case with next of kin inheriting the account. But it definitely was a huge pain in the ass.
You don't think it's suspicious if a user's account is active after they've died? That's about the reddest flag for fraud you could possibly have. Maybe I'm being naive, but eBay getting notified of the death through the banking system seems like the obvious possibility.
Anyone but DNC voter rolls would see post-mortem activity as suspicious.