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PayPal Accounts Drained Due to iTunes Fraud
Several people who have their Paypal accounts tied to their iTunes accounts woke up to some surprising emails this morning. A hacker managed to gain access to their accounts and drained thousands of dollars from several unsuspecting people. One customer reported that “My account was charged over $4700. I called security at PayPal and was [...]
Layers of Computer Protection
Computer security people advocate layers of protection. There is no single software program that gives absolute protection. The Internet criminals and hackers simply respond too quickly, and are too sophisticated to be stopped by any one method. One of the layers of protection that people seem to neglect is encryption. There seems to be a [...]
How to Buy and Sell on eBay
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Like many of you, I’ve purchased and sold things through eBay auctions. However, the experience wasn’t nearly as clean as it could have been. Have you tried making a killer eBay page to sell something? It’s impossible on your own – [...]
Do You Have a Problem with PayPal?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed On my birthday, $450 worth of iTunes gift certificates were transferred from my account to someone else’s, on account of my account being compromised. I logged into my PayPal and sent in a report. My request for my money to be [...]
PayPal Denies $450 of Unauthorized Charges
On my birthday last Saturday, I received a “present” I wish I never had. Due to some lax security policies that Apple has thankfully since updated, someone was able to use my birth date to obtain my iTunes password, and get into my account. They then managed to use that information to give themselves a [...]
eBay and PayPal Security
Gary may just save your skin with this security tip… Good morning, afternoon, or evening whatever it happens to be in your area. I don’t know if you’ve heard of these 2 accessories that Paypal uses but I know from your eBay videos that you and your family have both eBay and Paypal accounts. Paypal [...]
PayPal Fraud Protection
James Scott just caught the eBay Fraud Victim tale I shared a few weeks back: I have witnessed firsthand PayPal taking $427 from a seller’s bank (checking) account and refunding just $200 to the buyer, stating to the buyer that the $200 was all that could be recovered. I was the buyer. If the seller [...]
Mechanical Turd
I don’t really wanna poop on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) program, but I have a huge problem with it: you can’t sign up to deploy the service unless you give them your bank account information first! Are we living in 1990 or something? Have they ever heard of PayPal – or a credit card, at [...]
The Blogosphere Has Jumped the Shark
eBay now has blogs. Here’s how you can expect an average entry to read: “I just sold something. I’m auctioning something else today. Hey did you want to buy something? Check my feedback. They all say I’m an A+ seller except for that one guy. I wish I could buy more things. Send money to [...]
