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Comment by miohtama | Hacker News Reader

Duns is a scam.

Once I had to register my company there and they wanted to "verify" the information. They did it by randomly calling me 2 weeks later and asked if it is real and asked me to give a phone to someone next to me to confirm I am not lying.

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If you are like me and did not know what Duns stands for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Universal_Numbering_Syste...

How would responding to a phone number, one given by the initiator himself, verify that he represents a company? Couldn't a fraudster just give them his or her a own phone number?

I would have expected that the money they siphon thanks to the likes of Apple and google would be sufficient for them to verify the numbers with a reputable third-party broker.

> Couldn't a fraudster just give them his or her a own phone number?

Shh.

IMO nothing can ever be as bad as having to deal with Broadcom's Support Portal (after finding out that this is the place you 're supposed to get VMware software). An hour fighting the account registration process because it refuses to play ball with your password manager, followed by the site insisting that you "build your profile" in order to receive the proper entitlements to download the software. Building your profile then sticks you in a loop where you have to provide a "Site ID" which is totally unneccessary and indeed not available to non-corporate users who just want to get their free for personal use copy of VMware Workstation Pro.

They’re basically a data broker for businesses, like Experian/Equifax/Transunion except more self-reporting based. The amount of spam I received after registering with them was so annoying.

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