Well PayPal once flagged a non-existent transaction on my account as suspicious. I had to call them to get it sorted out. The fact that something like that can happen surely doesn't help me trust PayPal...
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly - as the article points out, without released voice recordings (if they exist, which is not a given), they can't prove that they didn't. Haven't similar things happened before with paypal though?
In a hearsay battle between Paypal and a thief, why is the burden on PayPal to prove its innocence?
Because Paypal has a history of being full of shit.
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#13I am more interested in Twitter's response to all of this.
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#14I'd be reporting them to the authorities. Then I'd sue them, and get the recording in discovery.
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#16In my opinion, the hacker who hijacked this guy's Twitter account didn't have had ANY interest in explaining how he got to it, besides creating a hoax to confuse and divert attention. Just think about it, in just one email he puts the blame on both GoDaddy, for doing phone validation over unsecure criteria (like credit card numbers), and PayPal (for giving out the last digits of the card number to a complete stranger…
> didn't have had ANY interest in explaining how he got to it, besides creating a hoax to confuse and divert attention.
Would the story have gone viral, though, had he just said, "I'm not going to say anything about how I did it."? The story would have just been another "I got hacked" story.
If the hacker were really clever enough to fabricate such an elaborate hoax, I think he would have been clever enough to realize the best way to divert attention from the story, would have been to just keep quiet.
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#17In my opinion, the hacker who hijacked this guy's Twitter account didn't have had ANY interest in explaining how he got to it, besides creating a hoax to confuse and divert attention. Just think about it, in just one email he puts the blame on both GoDaddy, for doing phone validation over unsecure criteria (like credit card numbers), and PayPal (for giving out the last digits of the card number to a complete stranger…
I guess we'll never know, but last 4 digits are not difficult to get (they're on every single one of my receipts... and for all we know, this guy could be in close vicinity of him...), and making up that PayPal gave the hacker those 4 digits is a good diversion.
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#18I am more interested in Twitter's response to all of this.
I am too. Just because Twitter can very easily prove that account was stolen and return it to the owner. I don't think it is possible to steal, for example, twitter name "jack" or "barackobama".
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#19Fuck PayPal, like you ever gave a shit about your customers. Do us all a favor and KILL yourselves
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a hearsay battle between Paypal and a thief, why is the burden on PayPal to prove its innocence?
Because Paypal has a history of being full of shit.
that's not a reason to convict without evidence.
if paypal is so shit why is everyone using them.
vote with your feet