Web Blog of Greg Mathews

As someone selling perl scripts online you are a target for fraudulent paypal payments and as long as there are idiots online that fall for every spoof email around asking for paypal details that will always be the case.

This week though has really concerned me, in August one script was purchased twice by the same person, this is not as strange is it may appear as some people do do the right thing and pay for more than one copy of the script if they are using it on different sites, however Paypal did not like the look of it and carried out one of their investigations. At the end of August they decieded they transactions where fraudulent and cancelled them, refunding the buyer in full for each transaction.

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