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Abiword's PayPal Donation Fund Robbed
SabberFlapper writes "According to this Announcement to the developer list of Abiword the Abiword fund was robbed. Dom Lachowicz writes: 'I'm duty bound to let you all know that the AbiWord Fund/Tip Jar has
been robbed approximately three weeks ago. I'm telling you this now,
rather than sooner, since I believed that Paypal would do something
about my complaints during the interim, and that this would all be
resolved quietly. Today, 23 days later, this does not look like it will
happen. [..]
I do however, recommend doing several things:
1) Writing to Paypal, in letter, email, or fax form alerting them to
this travesty.
2) Calling Paypal on AbiWord's behalf.
3) Writing or calling your Congressman/woman, pointing out that Paypal
is acting like a bank, but not operating under formal banking laws.
4) Boycotting Paypal because of these reasons, and the fact that their
system is notoriously insecure, and encouraging others to do the same.'" Of all the groups to steal from -- AbiWord?
PayPal Sucks crap. Ebay + PayPal = Huge pile of crap! I wish it were not so. G
Oh cmon. 3/4 of the world is poor and you downgrade me because information is power? Shit. I might as well forsake the computer and program with rocks and sticks (it can be done, you euber hackers!). Fuck. Pussies. You can't code worth a damn, or you'd elsee you'd have already freed the world.
actually i'd say it's more likly paypal is holding their money and have accused them of coming a crime. paypal are notorious for doing this.
IANAL but...
Being hard to contact in itself isn't fradulent. However, it is fraud when they are avoiding customers who have legitamate claims against them, wether they know it or not. In this case, it is fraud. Period.
Any company who is accepting money from anybody and ignores those same people when they attempt to contact them for a complaint against the service or product is fraudulent. therefore, PayPal may be fradulent. This is evidence that can be presented in court against PayPal and it would stand up as well. (Unless there is a contract that was signed stating otherwise)
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From the sound of the post, it I figured it was at least a few grand :)
... hell he was even more honest sounding than King Mobutu from Nigeria who needed my help the other day!"
This isn't exactly the biggest scam in the universe, a drop in the bucket in-terms of the amount of money swindled in other Ebay or PayPal related transactions. (if you can even call it a transaction).
"Oh sure.. I'll just send you this $1k check in the mail and ASSUME my hardware is on the way.... what could possibly go wrong."
"He seemed like a perfectly honest person in the email!!
--Me
But you can beat the crap out of a guy, steal his computer, murder his children, and charge him with copyright violation.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.