Dwolla now offers an instant loan service for up to $500. Don't even need to rob people's bank accounts, just make a new account using their stolen information you bought for $10 on a crime forum and apply for credit. Spend $500 to get bitcoins and they won't know for a month anything is wrong.
Ohh ... I didn't even think of that, ya -- that's going to leave a mark. It could actually go more than a month. Dwolla doesn't do an ACH just because you didn't pay at the end of the month. They just assess a fee. It proably could go a couple months or more before they send collections to look into it. |
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If AAPL has went below 500 between now and June 10th, I owe you 10 BTC, otherwise you owe me 10  Let's see what others think. - http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=336Please your bets, ladies! |
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I still dont get why writing somewhere not for auctions works ?
I made the same mistake when I first read that. Written a different way: "Even a cash deposit to your bank account could be later reversed by the bank if it is determined the depositor was defrauded. The bank can help prevent this from occurring by making the depositor write 'Not for auctions' on the deposit receipt." This way if the person tells the cops they got scammed, too bad -- the receipt shows they were warned and should have known better. |
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ike having people write 'Not for auctions' on the deposit receipt and scanning/sending, or using Trust Cash.
How does that scam work? |
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If you accept either Green Dot MoneyPak or WalMart MoneyCard as payment when trading your bitcoins, you may wish to take extra caution. But when she tried to activate the first of the cards over the phone, she had no luck. This is for a WalMart MoneyCard (same concept as MoneyPak). The card had already been redeemed when the customer tried to load the funds (presumably to a reloadable prepaid debit card) using an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system. So the problem is either at that specific WalMart, with the IVR system, or with Green Dot's system. Cote returned to Walmart with her two cards the next day, spending more than an hour with store associates. She said they even unsealed Cote's other card and tried to activate it themselves, and they couldn't do it. So a second, sealed card also couldn't be used as it too had already been redeemed. someone outside the country had stolen her thousand dollars electronically before she even got home.
Green Dot told us that the card, the money from my card, was transferred to another card in Jamaica," Cote said. "Less than 30 minutes after I purchased the card." Somewhere there's a problem, and this lady seems to be in the middle of it. When we asked a manager at the Walmart store on Sheridan Drive about Cote, we were told it is not a Walmart problem, it is a police matter. No, if the second card was sealed then this issue is between WalMart and Green Dot and this woman should be given her money back immediately. After getting the answers we did at the Sheridan Drive store, we contacted Walmart's corporate offices in Arkansas and learned this is not an isolated incident. Yowza! - http://www.wivb.com/dpp/money/4_your_wallet/woman-loses-1000-on-walmart-moneycardSo, the caution is if you are accepting MoneyPak or MoneyCard, then it might be this Jamaican source trading it for bitcoins. There's no reports on #bitcoin-otc of this happening yet, but caution is advised. Even though the code might be redeemable if it happen to be one of these stolen in whatever manner this is happening, then Green Dot could at a later time try to reverse the transaction. The first thing Green Dot will do is ask the person who used the code to come up with the receipt, so if trading bitcoins for MoneyPak from an untrusted source, make sure to get the receipt. |
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Just in last couple of hours we received several thousand dollars more from what seems like compromised accounts.
Ok, Keyur is using "accounts", which is plural. Someone stole the identity of a US citizen, opened up a bank account.
Use that account to verify Dwolla, (Since they have fake ID's and access to the account) and in small amounts used the exchanges to buy Bitcoin.
Once the account owner realized (Weeks later!) that funds were being taken account of their account, they call the bank and claim fraud.
Ok, Yankee is using "account", which is singular. (Most of the compromised accounts were trusts, or lawyer accounts which are rarely checked...ironically)
No wait, ... that's plural. Oh ... so maybe is Yankee bringing in stuff from last July into this conversation? Or is that referring to today's activity? |
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Which O/S?
Oh, ... missed the "(W7)". This is really old, so I don't know if it applies to Windows 7: - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q115831my first 5 singles take up ports 5-9 and are working fine. My problem is using ports above 9 (specifically 10-12). So this switch to FPGA thing is real, huh? |
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Yup, pretty much just like that, except works against a Bitcoin address that is known only to the merchant and to the customer, nobody else. |
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I saw one the other day but I can not seem to find it with the search.
The full list of EWallets, including hosted wallets (e.g., PayTunia, or the type of ewallet you have with an account at an exchange), hybrid Javascript wallets (like My Wallet from BlockChain.info and StrongCoin), etc. - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:EWallets |
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Sorry to learn of the financial loss incurred by this. Thank you for being diligent and also for sharing what you've learned.
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Yup, someone hates OKPay for whatever reason and is sending out messages to the list of e-mail addresses that was obtained last June when Mt. Gox got hacked. Here's a prior spam campaign, possibly by the same perpetrator: - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=76270.0 |
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To be honest I had expected more active users when I started out.
I just posted this on a post for StrongCoin where "feature requests" were being solicited. These would apply for BitcoinSpinner as well: A "merchant mode" so that it is functional as the only tool a merchant needs to accept bitcoins. e.g., Receive Bitcoins Enter amount in USDs and the Receive displays a QR code with the receiving bitcoin address and BTC amount. Notifications for receipt of coins to each address generated (and alert on on 0/unconfirmed). Notification to an email address that may not necessarily be tied to the same e-mail account used for sign-in. Bonus if another notification is sent if a double-spending attempt is detected (e..g, from a listening network). Ability to create and print a receipt, listing USD amount, BTC amount, date and time and transaction# for payment that was received. Ability to have all incoming payments swept to another address (e.g., at an exchange). [Update: Or on the consumer side: Some way to know that you are in the proximity of a merchant or exchange that accepts bitcoins, or near another BitcoinSpinner user that has configured to announce location to other BitcoinSpinner users. Or perhaps integrate with Sonar: - http://www.sonar.me - http://www.rotoloclass.com/2012/04/01/sonar-review - http://blog.laptopmag.com/hands-on-with-ambient-location-app-sonar-find-friends-wherever-you-go - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MeSD0r41sZo#t=93s ] |
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A "merchant mode" so that it is functional as the only tool a merchant needs to accept bitcoins.
e.g.,
Receive Bitcoins
Enter amount in USDs and the Receive displays a QR code with the receiving bitcoin address and BTC amount.
Notifications for receipt of coins to each address generated (and alert on on 0/unconfirmed). Notification to an email address that may not necessarily be tied to the same e-mail account used for sign-in. Bonus if another notification is sent if a double-spending attempt is detected (e..g, from a listening network).
Ability to create and print a receipt, listing USD amount, BTC amount, date and time and transaction# for payment that was received.
Ability to have all incoming payments swept to another address (e.g., at an exchange).
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Kickstarter campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/calyxBut do know they are describing launching a commercial service. Not that doing so is bad, but don't confuse "non-profit" with "non-commercial". They might not even be a non-profit, as their About page reads: "launching the first not-just-for-profit telephone and Internet service" There are fully open source community-based equivalents and efforts, such as: Free Network Foundation - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49288.0And many of the components of what Calyx will offer are available separately. [Caveat: I'm not a network engineer so don't know the details. I previously have built and hosted a Freedom Tower for the FNF.] |
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Couldn't you find a supply locally? I keep reading about these Chilean miners. Sorry, that joke was ... probably too soon? not funny. There is the ability to purchase via SMS / mobile through BlockChain.info. The price isn't super but Chile is one of the countries in the list: What countries is the service available in?
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America
- https://blockchain.info/wallet/sms-phone-deposits |
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Normally in a sale there is a buyer who pays for a purchase, and a seller who accepts payment for a purchase.
In this instance, it is worded that the seller is offering a C$100 bill. Thus wouldn't you instead ask how much the seller would require you to pay?
The title says "Wanted: New, uncreased Canadian $100 bill in the mail." To me, that indicates that he wants a $100 bill, not that he has one. Wow, sorry. Not sure how I misread that. I can't even blame a lack of sleep. |
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Couldn't it simply display the public bitcoin address as well, to serve all rather than forcing users to adopt to this fancier method?
Granted, check it out and tell me what you think about it Ok, that's perfect. Except, I also tried clicking on the QR code to test that, and that doesn't seem to copy to clipboard. I don't know if it worked earlier, I never pasted after it said copied to clipboard. I am using Chrome v18. |
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