This is an overview of our core product. These features make up our core engagement loop and trading safety value proposition to users.
Identity Verification
Unique identities are the backbone of Oath preventing fraudsters from creating new accounts. It is what makes our platform secure and more resistant to fraud than other social media platforms.
Facial Recognition
A userās identity is uniquely tied to their face, something that cannot be spoofed or faked without plastic surgery. Oath uses FaceTec facial recognition technology employed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, CitiBank, HSBC, Hinge, and other large institutions.
This facial recognition technology is the best way to verify if someone is alive, a new user, and not a bot or AI! It also helps you sign in to your account without a password. Your FaceScan is fully encrypted and never accessible by anyone except you and our servers.
The beauty of this process is knowing that anyone you interact with on Oath is a real person who has signed up with their real identity.
Account Linking
Linking accounts is core to Oathās usefulness across the internet. Users are able to verify to others that their social media or payment accounts are linked to a real person, without sharing any private info. This is massively helpful in preventing online scams of all types.
Most scammers create fake names and profile pictures for their accounts. Oath can compare this information to your submitted ID and Face Scan, verifying their authenticity. When users link their accounts to a real identity and trade with Oath, it shows that thereās nothing to hide.
Oaths (Legal Agreements)
As you can probably guess, āOathsā are pretty important around here. They are the central action and product that we offer. Oaths are easy-to-use legal contracts between two verified users that are mediated by our moderators.
Oaths ensure 3 things:
- Youāre dealing with a real person on the other end
- Both people have signed a legally binding contract to follow through
- If anything goes wrong, our moderators will resolve the dispute
Details
When you create or accept an Oath, you specify whether itās a purchase, sale, or trade. And you record down the exact items and prices agreed upon. If youāve already found a trade partner, you can simply send them the Oath link to verify their identity and decide to move forward or not.
If you havenāt found a buyer or seller, you can use Oath to accept various potential, serious offers and vet their reputation/identity information. Allowing users to see the trustworthiness of an individual before trading with them is key.
Auto-Share Necessary Information
After both sides agree to the Oath, all of the relevant information like payment and shipping are automatically shared, allowing the rest of the transaction to be a breeze.
Dispute Moderation
Most of the time, things are going to go right. But when things go wrong, know that Oath has your back. Group moderators use Oath as a tool to easily collaborate with team members to resolve disputes and conflicts as well as keep their groups safer.
Reviewing evidence
When an Oath is reported, both sides submit evidence defending their claim. This includes shipping information, pictures, and other detailed reports. Moderators will review all of this information and come to a conclusion in the span of 2 days.
This review process costs $5 per person and the winner of the dispute will get a refund. If the loser has new evidence after the decision and wants to appeal, they can spend $10 to have an Oath employee or administrator look over the group moderators decision.
Preventing repeat scammers
When group moderators mark an Oath dispute as being fraudulent, it automatically marks the bad actors profile with this information. This bad actor will be removed from the group and prevented from creating Oaths or participating in trades for 6 months. Any other Oath member that tries to trade with this individual will be blocked from doing so.
After 6 months, the user will be allowed to trade again but will be required to pay the upfront cost of the items and essentially insure the transaction. All Oath members will see that these users have committed fraud in the past. However, from then on, these bad actors can begin to rebuild their community trust and reputation.
Universal Reputation
Oathās motto is ābe the glueā. We believe that trust and reputation shouldnāt be closed off to one platform or place. Thatās why on Oath, your identity and reputation follows wherever you buy or sell on the internet - whether thatās on Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, or anywhere else.
Universal reputation also means collaboration between different communities and platforms on bad actors. Fraudsters should have no place on the internet, anywhere. By using Oath as a collaboration tool and a ālinkā between communities, all groups can share information so that fraudsters are caught once and blocked everywhere.
Group Tools
We also build the most useful tools for group moderators to keep their groups safe from fraud and keep tabs on activity.
Admission
Group admission is one of the biggest problems for communities having to verify that new users arenāt scammers is tiring and never-ending. Oath can take care of that for you, allowing only accounts with verified identities to join your group.
Moderation Work
Moderation work can be hard to coordinate between different members of the admin team. Oath creates a moderator dashboard where users in disputes can directly submit information and proof for you to review. Once youāre ready to make a decision, you can easily take admin action on this individual and mark them on Oath, preventing them from entering your group or others.
Privacy and Encryption
The last and most important feature we have on Oath is full encryption of all personal data. We take this very seriously and have far better practices than our competitors. Hereās how we keep your data safe.
Privacy controls
A fundamental belief we have is that users should be able to verify their identity and show trustworthiness without sharing any of their personal information. Thatās why we include all kinds of privacy control features that allow you to blur your profile photo, show your initials only, hide your location, and prove account ownership without showing the details.
Full encryption
All of your personal data is fully encrypted. That means addresses, names, images, birth dates, face scans, IDs, everything is inaccessible by our employees. And in the case of a data breach, users data will still be secure as the data is unreadable by anyone except our servers where we keep the encryption keys.
We never sell your data
Yep. Never. Read our terms of services and privacy policy. We will never sell your data to a 3rd party looking to get information on you or target you. If we ever choose to sell the company, you have the ability to delete your account and data beforehand - given that you have not committed fraud.
We are dedicated to our mission of creating a safer world and making money by protecting your transactions. We are not in the business of selling your data.