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Cross-Selling Online Scams and Security Issues
An anonymous reader writes "The site 12 Angry Men recently published a discussion of a widely used but little-known online scam called 'cross-selling'. Essentially, after-sale shops cut deals with shady online retailers in an attempt to make a quick buck off of you after you've already bought something. 'What actually happens is that instead of linking to the site as a separate session, they link internally as another page in the same session. Why is this important? When you do a credit card transaction, any reputable company will attempt to protect your credit card data. They do this by establishing an SSL session to encrypt sensitive data on-line.' What makes everything even more interesting is that now the company has responded, with the usual white washing and meaningless statements."
They say accounts are in the black when they are good, and in the red when they are bad. Obviously white folk don't even deal with money, only those dirty black people and red people, and just as obviously, red people are dirtier than black people. I suppose they don't include yellow people because this all started before they knew about them.
Infuriate left and right
That was a very moving poem. I particularly enjoyed the vivid description of the twenty dollars.