Re: PayPal Pal's to Criminals?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:17:19 CST, RMueller said:
> "Paypal is practicly the most used by criminals," is the bold remark of one in
> it for the money hacker. 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5407516.stm
>
> I have a deep, deep gut wrenching feeling about that statement.

Maybe PayPal is used by 75% of the hackers because PayPal is used by 75%
of *everybody* who wants to move money around, but doesn't want to give
an actual credit card number to the other person?

(Or whatever the numbers are - I'm willing to bet that we'll discover that
95% of the hackers spend at least part of their money at Amazon and eBay.
That doesn't necessitate that Paypal, Amazon, or eBay are in cahoots with
hackers....)

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