photo id

[Dreamstime News]

As an extra measure of security and fraud prevention, photographers will be required to upload a copy of a photo ID (only one of the following: ID card, passport, driving license).

All future contributors will be required to have one on file before uploading images and all previous contributors will be required to upload one before requesting a payment.
For contributors who have already received payments from us, this will not be drastically enforced in the beginning as we realize this will require an extra time.
Considering the high number of payment requests, it has to be automated. The info will be mandatory after a while, please don't leave it for the last minute.

This will be a one time upload, you don't have to do it each time you request payment. The information will be kept confidential and not available to anyone but site admins.

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[hatman12]

Good.  Anything to help prevent fraud and theft is good.

[Bateleur]

Sounds good to me, too. There's too much theft and fraud on the internet.