Abiword's PayPal Donation Fund Robbed 608
SabberFlapper writes "According to this Announcement to the developer list of Abiword the Abiword fund was robbed. Dom Lachowicz writes: 'I'm duty bound to let you all know that the AbiWord Fund/Tip Jar has
been robbed approximately three weeks ago. I'm telling you this now,
rather than sooner, since I believed that Paypal would do something
about my complaints during the interim, and that this would all be
resolved quietly. Today, 23 days later, this does not look like it will
happen. [..]
I do however, recommend doing several things:
1) Writing to Paypal, in letter, email, or fax form alerting them to
this travesty.
2) Calling Paypal on AbiWord's behalf.
3) Writing or calling your Congressman/woman, pointing out that Paypal
is acting like a bank, but not operating under formal banking laws.
4) Boycotting Paypal because of these reasons, and the fact that their
system is notoriously insecure, and encouraging others to do the same.'" Of all the groups to steal from -- AbiWord?
Screw Paypal. (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:I'll close my Paypal account too... (Score:1, Funny)
You're new here, right?
Criminals and Honor (Score:1, Funny)
Re:ok Paypal sux, but.... (Score:2, Funny)
Stories like this one are very, VERY common [paypalwarning.com]
Several months ago I was offering the general public a free copy of the popular OS called Linux 8.0. This is a freely distributable program under the general license agreement. The customer only had to pay for shipping. ($5.00 US dollars)
I had hundreds of people that responded to the offer and I delivered the program as offered and according to the law. PayPal sent me an e-mail saying that they were going to suspend my account unless I could provide proof that I had permission to distribute this software. [...]
Heh.
Linux 8.0.
(For $5? What a deal!)
Re:How was it done? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Don't give them bank details (Score:5, Funny)
Sure, no problem!
PAYPAL HOWTO
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(1) Don't.
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Re:Screw Paypal. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How was it done? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Don't give them bank details (Score:5, Funny)
Forgive me for asking.. but that name sounds familiar. Who is John Galt?
Re:Pay Pal is sleazy (Score:1, Funny)
"Hey honey, let's ignore tried and true banking principles that have been in place for years and are regulated by the government and let's use this new website that just opened up instead!" "Ok, sounds great!"
[beep][beep][beep]Oh sorry, gotta run, my bullshit detector is going off...
Re: Who is John Galt? (Score:3, Funny)
Re: Who is John Galt? (Score:3, Funny)
In other news... (Score:2, Funny)