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Originally Posted by Daddy Warbucks
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I use the same passwords repeatedly, it just never occurred to me that all anyone needs to break into Moneybookers is email address + password. I must have used the password on some shady website which then took my email address + that, tried it out and hit the jackpot.
Pretty ******ed of me but I've never come home drunk and gambooled a tank away, or lost tons of money at -EV games, so I figure we all have our own way of paying the stupid tax.
It's pretty insecure for them to be using email as username imo but it's my fault really. Anyway hopefully they can recover some/all of the money.
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Originally Posted by PenelopeCruz
Chris, how did they withdraw the money? P2P transfer and all their info should be available no? That really sucks, sorry.
~2.4K was sent directly to offgamers.com, a gaming retailer. I have the highest hopes of recovering that money. ~3K was sent to dotpay.pl and thence to inexus.pl, another gaming retailer. I contacted dotpay and they said I had to contact the merchant, I emailed them but no response. Moneybookers is on the case there too. Whether we'll get the message to the merchant in time is anyone's guess. The bulk of the money (~9K) was sent in $100 increments (apparently 90 $100 transfers wasn't enough to alert bookers that somethng was wrong) to paybycash.com, another payment processor who also issues "Ultimate Game Cards" which can be used to buy gaming stuff. He was apparently intending to move all the money through that but after ~90 transfers they started just refunding the money. I contacted them directly and they said I had to get bookers to contact them before they'd freeze the account (I have obv but bookers takes time to do that). Thanks a lot idiots.
Not sure what his plan is with all these gaming retailers. Either he's a kid and actually wants to buy gaming stuff (lol) or he has some plan to buy items in WoW or w/e and then resell them? idk. time is obviously of the essence here so hopefully bookers can sort things out quickly. kind of frustrating that the transactions are instant but then reversing them moves at a snails pace.