what's up with 404 Google+ accounts?

[chadwhitacre]

e.g.

https://gratipay.com/gabecq/ =>
https://plus.google.com/114095307417238376097 <- 404

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[chadwhitacre]

Reticketed from #2964 because this came up during fraud review.

[chadwhitacre]

cf. #2341

[chadwhitacre]

https://gratipay.com/taylor.heffernan/
https://plus.google.com/117372642446048178229

[blrhc]

This could be pretty serious.

[chadwhitacre]

https://gratipay.com/ayanamiismywaifu/

[chadwhitacre]

https://gratipay.com/daenen6.7/
https://gratipay.com/ORYLY/
https://gratipay.com/yorkj86/

[techtonik]

Are they closed? Is there an API to check that account exists?

[chadwhitacre]

https://gratipay.com/a.bonaccorsy/
https://gratipay.com/itsP/

[chadwhitacre]

https://gratipay.com/stony02/

[chadwhitacre]

https://gratipay.com/catcow33/
https://gratipay.com/daisycodes/

[chadwhitacre]

https://gratipay.com/Paul%20Boddie/

[blrhc]

Have we actually identified the problem here?

[chadwhitacre]

@benhc123 I haven't. What do you need in order to work on this?