It just never ends, does it?
Here I have again found hacked, stolen verified PayPal accounts openly for sale, along with a variety of other related goodies.

Following a search term which had brought someone to another blog of mine, I found this. I won't mention the site name or the email address shown, but this is not the fist time this very sort of thing has been found. I doubt it will be the last either. Here is a screencap of the entire page, reduced to 480. Screencap of the search too. Screencapture of the cached page

So just more evidence that PayPal is not safe, as they would lead you to believe.

 If you believe Payapl is safe, honest, secure and trustworthy, I am afraid you are gravely mistaken. But of course, the choice is yours, after all, it is your money, your bank account, your time, effort, money tied up or stolen, &  your frustration dealing with them when something goes wrong.

Get a clue people, safe browsing includes avoiding the sites/services which are targeted by scammers. ebaY and paypal are at the TOP of that list. Just one more reason to...

Boycott ebaY & PayPal!

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/26319

"not offering PayPal is like buying heroin"

Oh my. This is just too funny.
ebay.au vice President Simon Smith compares NOT offering Paypal to buying heroin.
This snippet really just about says it all while only really hinting at the depth of the problem.

eBay's Australian management held a public meeting for sellers in Melbourne tonight to justify its plans to make PayPal compulsory. Things got nasty. Very nasty.

This is a lengthy article with comments following. See if you can get through it without laughing , cringing, and coming to the conclusion that site/service is not the sort of people most want to associate with, let alone give your business to or rely upon for your livelihood.

I am also left wondering just how that person knows so much about buying or selling heroin?
Was that a Freudian slip?

Come to think of it, it seems to me that ebay and PayPal both behave like chronic drug addicts, on a HUGE, out of control binge, anthropomorphically speaking.

Now, I found this video of Simon Smith pimping,  ... I mean pitching paypal on youtube.
Watch it. Look at him. Listen to him.

How does he look to you?

If that person approached you anywhere, asking you about money, or bank account, credit card numbers etc, what would you do?
Look at him!

Do you trust that person?
Do you trust anyplace this person runs?
Does IT seem that using ebaY or paypal may be more like supporting a drug dealer/ addict?
Is this sort of comment, along with some of the other humdingers we have seen recently, indicative of a company you want to give your money to?
What are they really doing with all that money?
Buying heroin, crack, hookers, whatever..., as part of some sort of secret PayPal 'safety experiment'?

ROFLMAO PIMP

Just one more good reason to ...

Boycott ebaY & PayPal!

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/26285

eBayHaTe: How I Manually Hacked eBay PayPal Account @ Home!

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/26197

Now why, oh why...  would this fine consumer awareness/online safety site's pages be blackballed?



Hard to believe, eh?

IMO, an outright falsehood, and more evidence of ebay sleazery. Clearly, the site is NOT a phishing site.
Never has been. There is not another entity in the entire world who would seek to make these pages unavailible, other than ebay. Furthermore, it is NOT the first time such sleazy low, cheating tactics have been used.
What the site is is an outspoken critic of ebay, and a valuable, honest friend of the consumer. Whoever owns/operates the site is someone whom I respect & admire.

I was in the course of getting ready to answer a question at a popular Youtube video, regarding the HACKING of ebay, by our friend Vladuz.

Searching my bookmarks, I found the pages, only to discover that the pages apparently have been wrongfully flagged as "Suspected Web Forgery" or  'phishing site" on Firefox 2.0.0.14 , the latest version.

I have some of those threads archived myself, so concerned readers of CompanyExposed.com and here, along with youtube viewers or newcomers to the world of ebay security failures need not be deprived of this important safety information.

Please check back into this post shortly, I shall zip all the files I have from that time frame and make them available as a download.

This is the url I had bookmarked:
http://www.companyexposed.com/575640/1/1/2007-03-01/eBay_Forums%20__USA312-before.htm

However, clicking the main page link for www.companyexposed.com/ still takes me to a valid, active site, so apparently, there is some 'selective' blackballing going on.
I repeated this several times over to be sure, on 2 different computers, with the same results.

This was, I believe, an archive of the "Massive, Worldwide, Multiple Users Hijack" thread, showing the 'pink " Vladuz posts. Note the 'before' in the url. That refers to before  ebay censored them, (thus causing great harm to the safety of the users of the site, which has continued unabated to this very day, as evidenced on my youtube channel, and on the companyexposed site.)

Update:
I have here  screencaptures (both full page sized, one reduced to 480 pixels wide, & one  full sized) of that archived thread from the archives  of companyexposed.com , which I saved on March 13th, 2007 as a complete html document.
I have several other threads from that time period, but it will take me a while to run them all down.
I only have so much time for this.

eBay_Forums__USA312-before_Massive_worldwide_multiple_user_hijacks_ARCHIVED_480.png

eBay_Forums__USA312-before_Massive_worldwide_multiple_user_hijacks_ARCHIVED.png

Now, I have sought confirmation from others as to what they are seeing, and I find that indeed the page is flagged, both through Firefox, and one resident anti-phishing application, at least.
Manually searching through the archives yields no results for the page in question, and again, going directly to the main url the site appears to display and operate normally.

I have also played around a bit with the url, taking out the extra spaces etc. Again, this was saved as a bookmark, and I have viewed that page not that long ago, perhaps 2-3 months.  Really not quite sure what to think of this,  but clearly it is being flagged. If this were actually 'not found' than I believe we would/should see a 404 page

This will be updated before too awful long. Just on the outside chance that anyone from companyexposed reads this, feel free to contact me. Just curious as to whether the site owner/operators are aware of this, or know of an explanation or the true nature of the trouble.
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http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/26183

This is all over the blogosphere now. I learned of this very early yesterday morning, before there was a peep mentioned about it anywhere. I had (identical) comments come to 2 of my youtube videos.

From what I gather, they were able to trace an IP number, and caught the individual pretty much red-handed.  Reports now indicate that laptops were thrown out of a 5th or 6th floor window, in apparent effort to destroy evidence.

There is a person who speaks and reads/writes both Romanian & English and is in Romania right now, posting some comments at one of the videos, so maybe we shall all get some good info, from close by the 'action'

Now, if this turns out to be true, not only is it a HUGE victory for ebay, but for the users.

There is no telling how much $$$ Vladuz was able to 'earn' from his exploits, but my guess would be that it is no small amount. I saw the term for millions mentioned on some of the Romanian blogs.

However, in light of all we have seen, let me just put it this way... I doubt it will help ebay's crumbling reputation should this turn out to NOT be Vladuz, or if he happens to pop up somehwere.
(Like ebay forums perhaps? LOL)

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/26123