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August 30, 2017 11:33 pm GMT

Essential keeps letting fans down — now it might have accidentally phished them

Brand-new phone maker Essential frustrated fans with months of silence and delays — but for some preorder customers, those missteps pale in comparison to the company’s latest PR nightmare.  

An Essential email account asked some customers to verify their identity by sending back a picture of a photo ID, according to a report from The Verge.  

SEE ALSO: The Essential Phone's gorgeous screen embarrasses all other phones

That's an odd request for a vendor to ask of its patrons — it smells suspiciously of a phishing scam — but with all of Essential's false starts, it might not have seemed out of line for fans who've waited for their phone since May.      Read more...

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