Your2ndPlace

What a great tool for griefers. If I understand this correctly, someone that has access to bogus Linden dollars can create an alt on a proxy, and then "pay" some unsuspecting person a large amount of these bogus Lindens and cause the victim to incur the fine?!

The third party withdrawal idea suggested here in the comments is interesting. However, why should it be given exclusively to Anshe/SLX? There are plenty of capable and responsible companies in Second Life beside SLX, how about we spread the "gifts" around to more than just one place?

The problem with the Risk api is that it is made absolutely unavailable by Linden Lab. My wife and I have sent email requests to make application to get the api countless times over the last several months. We follow the requirements that are stipulated; real name, avatar name, etc. We've got gold cards linked to our accounts, we've never had any kind of problem at all with our tier payments, Lindex purchases, complaints against us, etc. After several months and many emails, we have never once received any reply whatsoever from Linden Lab regarding this. At this point, we'd even be happy to get a response telling us to go fly a kite. Instead, it seems requests for the risk api simply go into some black hole never to be seen by a Linden staffer. Want to make Second Life transactions safer? Throw people a bone when they try to do the right thing and follow the rules.

Jim Allen