Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Resigns…

due to cancer?

Yeah, that’s the ticket.

I’m quite sure the RésuméGate scandal has nothing whatsoever to do with his departure, or my hysterical laughter.

All comedy aside, now it’s time for ebaY (and in particular, John Donahoe) to explain how and why it was that they had that false info on their site for years.

I have a feeling that’s not all.

Update:

Maybe the comedy isn’t over yet?  It appears that PR head Amanda Pires, formerly of ebay/paypal PR spokesperson infamy is also stepping down.

Thanks for the laugh. ;p

 

CLOSE YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT

I see that fakebook is having it’s big IPO today.

Does everyone realize how much pure fraud fakebook seems to be? They use the same shady “moderation” company full of paid undercover liars that ebay uses to sanitize it’s sleazy forums.

I’m sure none of the crooked-azz wallstreet investors care, they’re only in it for the money.

Uploaded by 1urbanshaman on Aug 9, 2011

So here’s a boycott you can do… upload this video to your FB page… say goodbye to your “friends” there…and get the hell off it!!

 

 

Plaintiffs Work on Settlement in PayPal Holds Lawsuit

Looks like big news at auctionbytes.com:

Online sellers who filed class action lawsuits against PayPal over the company’s practice of holding funds for lengthy periods have reached a tentative agreement to settle following successful mediations.

The parties in Fernando v. PayPal and Zepeda v. PayPal are currently in the process of finalizing a written settlement agreement and exhibits, including proposed notice to the settlement class. A hearing on preliminary approval is set for June 12, 2012, with the motion for preliminary approval to be filed by May 8, 2012.

There’s lots more to read there, including the court case numbers, law office names, contact emails etc.

It also looks like Paypal is expanding it’s terms in the ‘Funds Availability Program’ to allow for yet more reasons to unlawfully hold funds. Yes, they will still be not only holding, but increasing holding people’s funds despite the lawsuits!

Don’t forget that eBay has it’s own terms to hold people’s money also, and the User Agreements of the two are thoroughly intertwined, another condition which may not be legal.

By the way, in case you missed it, recently a paypal representative admitted they had faulty filters which were wrongly flagging people’s accounts and holding their money without good cause.

It’s very obvious what is happening. They need to extract more and more money from less and less people in order to show ‘growth’ where there is none.

I’m sure everyone must realize that by now.

My advice, don’t give these preypal clowns a chance to snatch your money. The fact they will still be holding (let alone expanding the list of reasons -which may or may not be secret) monies while or after such lawsuits are being settled demonstrates their contempt for the law and your rights as a consumer.

Once again, the Paypal User Agreement does not override your state’s Money Transmitter License terms. If it did, then PayPal would not be caving to the lawsuits. But apparently Paypal thinks they are above the law and they can settle up quietly, continue to abuse more folks, and hornswaggle the world. Keep filing complaints to your State’s agencies which oversee Money Transmitter Licenses and/or look into joining the lawsuits if you’ve been victimized.

If you haven’t yet become a victim, close your Paypal account and do whatever you need to to separate them from your bank accounts and credit cards. With their proven track record, you never know when or if the next ‘glitch’ or unannounced policy change will clean you out and throw your life into a tailspin.

 

Scott Thompson – 2009 Interview

That’s one helluva “inadvertent error“

Book’em, Danno!

Published on May 4, 2012 by theodpy

ITConversations spoke with then-PayPal President and now-Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, and the conversation turned to Thompson’s “bachelor’s degree in accounting and computer science.” Full interview at: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4058.html

 

The Paypal Store: for Fake Accounts

Once again I’ve stumbled upon a site where fake Paypal accounts are being sold. This time on the not so secret or hidden “hidden services” of the Tor Network.

Tor is a privacy and/or anonymity oriented software/browsing project, which has many legitimate uses. But like all things it can be used for other purposes too.

Fake Paypal accounts have been found and exposed so many times now it boggles the mind. Not only have I found them as far back as 2008, but so has Doc of ebaymotorssucks.com, auctionbytes, and krebsonsecurity to name a few. You can see even more here.

This is truly a perennial problem, and an entire sleazy industry. A problem which Paypal seems to deal with best by penalizing and abusing innocent, legitimate users.

The website is located at:

http://5xhp3ntcxfpfd5ig.onion/PayPal_Store_-_Home.html

which I believe you can only access via Tor.

When you click on “about” you are presented with this text:

Hello and welcome to the PayPal Store. Here you may purchase clean/hacked USA PayPal accounts, to use for online/offline black hat activities, etc.

Each purchase comes with a US PayPal account along with the associated e-mail account, fake identity of the PayPal’s “owner”, and optionally a VPN (for extra money). See Prices page for products.

Owning a fake PayPal is a must for black hats, e-whorers, scammers, money laundering, etc. These accounts are newly-created and have never been used, (no balance, etc., not including hacked accounts) and, if used correctly, should never become limited.

The site also has an FAQ page:

The the pricing page, where the payment options are shown as Bitcoin and Liberty Reserve:

There’s also contact page with a huge smile image and an email address. I’m not going to show that here.

One thing I’d like to point out here is that I’m not advertising for this website or service. I advise people to NOT get involved with such things. There’s no way of knowing who is on the other end or what you are actually supporting.

If you follow the news, then you know recently there was some sort of international drug bust of cyber-dope dealers. So it’s not out of the realm of possibility this site could be a sting operation of some sort

I’m not looking to start any conflict with users or owners of the site/service either. The purpose here is to alert legitimate PayPal users as to the risks involved as well as the utter dishonesty and hypocrisy when it comes to PayPal, their policies, practices etc.

Do I need to go on and describe PayPal pompous stance on security, or their lackadaisical policy enforcement/application? I could just mention a few things like Wikileaks, the Regretsy kids, constant violations of State Money Transmitter License terms, the current Zimmerman fundraising fiasco, recent articles from The Haggler…

Add to that the recent spurt of Paypal employee personal issues: They’ve had 2, count them two people commit suicide, and one get arrested for raping a 13 year old girl. All these things combined certainly don’t instill a sense of well-being to users, and seem to hint at deep dark troubles imo.

You get the idea. I could go on and on about the world’s “most loved”.

I’d like to point out again that the biggest risks involved are in the Paypal User Agreement, (a special arrangement of weasel words longer than Shakespeare’s Hamlet) in that they do NOT guarantee the identity of your trading partner, nor that any transaction will actually be fulfilled, they can (and will) lock your account, seize your funds without having to disclose any reason why. Top that all off with the key phrase “THE PAYPAL SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATION OF WARRANTY”

I still advise to steer clear of PayPal (and ebaY too for that matter)

If you have an account, close it down before you fall victim of this unsafe, untrustworthy, scandalous  outfit.

 

Zimmerman Received $200,000 from Website (via Paypal)

Published on Apr 26, 2012 by manybuddies

Zimmerman received $200,000 from his website (now closed).

Legal fees could easily amount to a million dollars, says his lawyer, Mark O’Mara.

…

Just a reminder; that for paypal to have allowed that account sure seems like it was against their own Terms of Service to me…

If you feel the same way, please close down your paypal account and persuade others to do the same.

 

A Visit to the Ebay Shop

I had to laugh when I went to the ebay shop to look into their adherence to eBay Shipping Best Practices (or lack thereof)

I found they wanted a whopping $9.98 to ship an ink pen.  That’s anywhere from at least 2 to at least around 9-10 times the legitimate cost to ship a pen.

But the fun just starts there. They also have a non-encrypted page for you to enter your credit card details and other personal info.

The screencapture shows the complete shipping fees area highlighted in pink since the informations panel covered it partially. The red shows the lack of encryption on their checkout page. Click for a larger view.

Keep up the good work ebay, and thanks for sticking to those “Industry Standards”. ;p

 

PayPal Racism: Beyond George Zimmerman

I notice yet another George Zimmerman defense fundraising site has popped up, savegeorgezimmerman.tumblr.com, using Paypal. On tumblr.com no less. This one features a picture of George Z made of Skittles, advice to “Donate anonymously to save George Zimmerman” and some text:

It’s time to hear all of the facts. The media has made it clear that they want to vilify an innocent man. We are here to help raise money to combat the Liberal Media’s lies. The truth must be told and we will make sure the history books show George Zimmerman as the hero that he truly is.

Once again George Zimmerman, “hero” or not, is entitled to a defense.

I feel that using Paypal as a vehicle for funds collection for this purpose, however,  are counter to Paypal’s own acceptable use policy.

What do you think?

the Paypal Acceptable Use Policy:

You may not use the PayPal service for activities that:

… (e) items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime, …

Something his supporters may wish to consider: Paypal does NOT guarantee the identity of the person collecting the funds. It could be anyone. Note the address on the PayPal billing page? (click the images to enlarge – opens in new tab or window) It doesn’t exactly produce a sense of anything proper and official, does it? There’s no way of telling whether they will take that money and vanish. I’m not sure that anyone supporting Mr Zimmerman has done the slightest bit of research into Paypal’s true nature

Now on to the next dirty thing about our friends at Paypal.

I’ve found that PayPal is also the preferred payment method for donations at The National Vanguard.

The National Vanguard is listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center website as a Neo-Nazi hate group.

That’s the second such site I’ve found now. The SPLC site states that they counted over 1000 such groups in the USA in 2011. I’m wondering how many more are using PayPal?

How it is that Paypal doesn’t follow their very own policies must simply be a matter of “Special Powers” or selective interpretation?

Paypal may not be a Racist, if you don’t anthropomorphize. But they don’t mind profiting from it, or from the entire nation being divided and played against each other?
Does that seem even lower than “plain ol’ Racism” to you? Racism for profit? Anything for profit!

I’m asking anyone and everyone who is reading this to close out your Paypal accounts and persuade others to do the same. Don’t forget that Ebay is the parent company of Paypal, so don’t use them either.

I don’t expect Paypal to close down those donation accounts.

I also don’t expect anyone in the main-stream media to pick up on this angle at all. Like Paypal, they’re only in it for the money.

It’s pretty much a given that PayPal does not care what the world thinks when it comes to Paypal making a quick sleazy buck. Unless and until there is an outcry that would wake the dead.

Back to the heart of the Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman issue…  just listen to the 911 calls. All of them. Then review the video where he enters the police dept. There seems to be plenty of readily observable facts contained within.  I did, and that’s about all I’ve seen or heard of it. The one where you can hear the person screaming for help and then the gunshot is truly chilling. But I’ll keep my opinion to myself.

 

George Zimmerman Surfaces – on Paypal’s Front Page!

Those crafty devils at Paypal must have decided to team up with George Zimmerman and the cash raising potential he offers for them.

After we all heard the ‘whereabouts unknown’ statements from his former legal counsel at their press conference, one of my insider-snitches from San Jose clued me in.

PayPal is no slouch when it comes to public relations. If you recall, when their engineer got arrested for child molesting they used that opportunity to introduce the world to Al_CaponePal, their “Special Powers” money ‘protection service’ spokesman.

Click for the full sized view.

Just a little update here… I see the former link I had to the msnbc news article concerning the Paypal engineer arrested for raping a 13 year old girl has mysteriously become a ’404, page not found”

Hilarious! I’ve replaced that link with a live link to the report at ksbw.com. Let’s see how long that lasts. For the screencaptured image of the 404′d msnbc article, look here.

 

 

Why Paypal Should Shut Down George Zimmerman’s Account

I spotted this from an astute member on twitter and it bears repeating.

The account would seem to be  being used for purposes contrary to the Paypal Acceptable Use Policy:

You may not use the PayPal service for activities that:

… (e) items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime, …

Seems simple.

Now let’s see how, or indeed if,  Paypal has any response to this issue.

 

Paypal Terms of Service Acceptable Use Policy Prohibited Activities