[thehoodedcoder]

i just recently had the same thought. this is only going to do 2 things.

1. prevent the existing cards from begin capitalized on by a crook or someone looking to dump a fake card
2. give the guys who are perpetrating the fraud the exact methodolgy they need to make their fraud perfect and undetectable.

the only way to prevent the problem is to have a secret method by which no one but the company knows, to identify real and fake holders.

it has to be more digital than that. it should work much like a finger print scanner does. each card has a unique, unreproducable fingerprint like or eyeball image/pattern which is tied to a specific holder(meaning the holder itself has a unique id), and a specific flip number and of a specific card

on the holder itself, not a sticker or some other lame ass method. like freaking engraved.

you scan the holder, enter the flip information, their site does all of the decoding and verification.

by default the holder should reside in someones collection. period. the grading companies need to work together to properly decommission cross over slabs. should be able to scan each other's flips and then automatically send the other company a report. so that all populations are known and all card are accounted for. all of you guys that crack slabs are opening points and places where someone can make a flip with your old number on it. especially if you are taking a picture of yourself doing it, then publically posting it to this forum. right?

then to top it all off, when people enter/scan validate a holder/flip it will do a check to see how many times that holder has been scanned, by who, from where and start sounding off alerts with published information surrounding potential bad/fraudulant cards flips....proactively looking for x number of people scanned this holder in x number of weeks. or this guy scanned this holder 10 times in one day, why is he doing that? this guy scanned 30 fails in one day, is he trying to manufacture a replica? and then you take that information and you make a page on your site about any potential hot zones for fraud.

hey...look out for this type of card this week.

right? that is how you solve a freaking problem.

kevin