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by Swenrekcah 1463 days ago
I tried to help my boss once to log onto Zoom for a meeting. The site asked for date of birth, and not wanting to give any PII I naturally entered some bullshit but plausible date.

Well Zoom locked him out for some time for trying to lie I guess and that meeting had to be moved to Teams.

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This is interesting. What triggered them to think this was a lie? Had your boss previously entered a different birthdate, which they remembered and then compared to?
I have no idea what they may have gathered before but now that I think back, I did choose the date really quickly so it may be possible it thought I was a bot. I’m not familiar with all the ways that is determined but I think it’s far-fetched but who knows.