[ic] RE: PayPal working with IC (changed to pleeeaaasemake a PayPal mod)?

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Ryan Hertz)]

At 05:02 PM 2/21/02 -0500, Jason Kohles wrote:
>On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 16:24, Julia Jacobs wrote:
> > On 2/21/02 3:50 PM, "Jason Kohles" <jkohles@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > You can't do this because it would require that the customer give you
> > > their PayPal account name and password, which any sane person would
> > > refuse to do.
> >
> > If a customer would give you their credit card number, why would they not
> > give you their PayPal account name and password if it is necessary to
> > complete the transaction and you put a disclaimer stating you do not store
> > their account info, it just passes directly to PayPal in a secure SSL form?
>
>If they are willing to do that, why not just ask them for the username
>and password of their banks webpage, then transfer the money directly
>from their account.  The big difference here is that with their paypal
>username and password, you can EASILY drain the contents of any of their
>linked bank accounts, charge all their credit cards up to the limit,
>compile a list of everyone they had ever sent or received money from,
>get their auction site usernames and passwords, and generally wreaked
>havoc.


Why don't you just spam out email like this:   All he needs is my bank 
information and I get half of the money!  Ha ha!

...
>From:Mr.James Ajah
>Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
>P.M.B 543,Ikoyi
>Lagos-Nigeria.
>
>Attn:President/Ceo.
>
>STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
>RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION,
>FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY).
>
>I know this email will reach you as a surprise,but need not to worry as we 
>are using the
>only secured and confidential medium available to seek for foreign 
>assistance/partnership
>in a business transaction which is of mutual benefit.
>I am a member of the Government of Nigeria Contract Award and Monitoring 
>Committee
>in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)Sometime ago,a 
>contract was awarded to a
>foreign firm
>in NNPC by my Committee.This contract was over invoiced to the tune of 
>US$21.5M.U.S.Dollars.
>This was done deliberately.The over-invoicing was a deal by my committee 
>to benefit from the
>project.We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense Account 
>with NNPC into any
>Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.
...