BEWARE: SCAMMERS ARE IN OUR MIDST

Thanks Everyone, my account is now restored by Mike. Really sorry for the mess created by the hacker.

This was the information he used to try to get money.
VENMO INFO:

TAG: @Alberto-arceo-3
alberto arceo
Last four digits：0509
 
7stud said:
People might want to take a look at row "8" and the furthest column to the right:

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You probably want to shoot for at least row "11", furthest column to the right.



Hey, thanks for posting that. I just changed my password and turned on MFA.
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The current trend in the computer security world is to go longer, not more complex. As one person at NIST bemoaned, we have spent the last 30 years teaching people to create passwords that are easy for computers and difficult for people to remember. Schemes that work well are random and randomly capitalized, misspelled words separated by numbers, nonsense sentences with numbers or characters along with spaces, long sentences that aren't quotes or easily attributable to a source, or mixed language sentences for the multilingual in our midst. To emphasize that point, adding two additional characters for upper and lower case letters gives you more security than the slightly shorter all character password, and will often be significantly easier to remember.

Once you hit the several day mark, bad guys would rather use the power bitcoin mining than password hacking, but remember that today's uncrackable password will be easier tomorrow. The 8 character, all symbol, 39 minute entry was chosen by NIST decades ago because it would have taken computers then millions of years to crack.
 
Das Cue-Boot said:
The current trend in the computer security world is to go longer, not more complex. As one person at NIST bemoaned, we have spent the last 30 years teaching people to create passwords that are easy for computers and difficult for people to remember. Schemes that work well are random and randomly capitalized, misspelled words separated by numbers, nonsense sentences with numbers or characters along with spaces, long sentences that aren't quotes or easily attributable to a source, or mixed language sentences for the multilingual in our midst. To emphasize that point, adding two additional characters for upper and lower case letters gives you more security than the slightly shorter all character password, and will often be significantly easier to remember.

Once you hit the several day mark, bad guys would rather use the power bitcoin mining than password hacking, but remember that today's uncrackable password will be easier tomorrow. The 8 character, all symbol, 39 minute entry was chosen by NIST decades ago because it would have taken computers then millions of years to crack.
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Re-using passwords is also a serious issue, if you use the same password for your bank as for your Wendy's account and for your knitting tips web site ran by Martha out of her home in Indiana, one of those is likely to have security issues, will get their accounts stolen and the people will just try your username, email and password in every bank or shopping site they can think of, including sending you emails or texts to try to get more info out of you.

I use one email account and a range of passwords for things like finance (bank, paypal, etc..), government stuff like RMV, online shopping, basically anything that may have my finance info, and anther email and PW scheme for the more fun sites like forums, Fargorate site, anything hobby related.
 
A few years ago, Burger King realized that "Whopper123" was not a secure password for their accounts. True story.
 
anybody can tell me how to get back refund from PayPal?

i bought a cue from a guy but he never ship out. I paid using PayPal goods and services. i file a case and escalate it to PayPal.
how many days will i get back my money? not sure if I'm doing the right way.
 
banker123 said:
anybody can tell me how to get back refund from PayPal?

i bought a cue from a guy but he never ship out. I paid using PayPal goods and services. i file a case and escalate it to PayPal.
how many days will i get back my money? not sure if I'm doing the right way.
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Call PayPal on the phone and fully explain your situation. If you paid Goods & Services you will get a refund within 10 business days.

402-935-7733 PayPal


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ga9ball said:
Call PayPal on the phone and fully explain your situation. If you paid Goods & Services you will get a refund within 10 business days.

402-935-7733 PayPal


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Thanks Greg!

if i don't call PayPal, but wait for them to review the case. will i get the refund back?
 
$TAKE HOR$E said:
Scammers aside, has anyone tried to recoup a payment sent via friends / family thru PayPal? To a complete stranger. For one, it’s low rent to charge people more than an item is listed at and two, what happens when you pay for something and worst case scenario a tragedy happens and your item doesn’t get shipped. Seller is in an accident etc. How do you explain to PayPal you actually have no idea who the people are but that 4% they nitted you on is now a complete headache. If priced accordingly, there’s no need to tack on extra fees such as PayPal and shipping. That’s what negotiating is for.

Maybe I’m old school but anytime I sell anything, I’ll never ask the buyer to pay extra…nor would I ever pay any extra fees when buying something.

Just a thought for any new folks 🤙🏼
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Funny you mentioned accident. I mailed a cue to a guy and on the way home a guy ran a red light and hit me. Nearly killed me.
 
Too bad there isn't a way to set something up, like have AZ verify the that you are who you say you are before being able to post anything for sale....That would be alot of time for AZ to do all that....But, it would be a way to avoid the scammers...Don't know how all that would work..
Just my thoughts...Maybe it is not a good one
 
banker123 said:
anybody can tell me how to get back refund from PayPal?

i bought a cue from a guy but he never ship out. I paid using PayPal goods and services. i file a case and escalate it to PayPal.
how many days will i get back my money? not sure if I'm doing the right way.
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If you got ripped off by someone for a cue that was never sent and especially if it started here, you need to post who that person was.
 
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