[dba-VB] Goin' for the (browser based) gold

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Mar 18 19:31:07 CDT 2010


You would think that the UK would be one place you could get him prosecuted.  Of course that assumes 
that he really is in the UK.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Michael Maddison wrote:
> Going OT but I gotta share :-)
> I had some clown in the UK try a over pay scam on my wife last week.
> We advertised a scooter on a commercial web site here in OZ.
> Guy strings us along then claims to have overpaid into PayPal account
> and wants the difference sent back via Western Union to the UK!
> Who would do that???
> I strung him along for a while saying we get so many transactions it's
> hard to see his payment :-)
> He tried to threaten me with the FRAUD POLICE. Lol...
> The web site I advertised sent me a form letter when I reported the
> incident warning me to be careful of fraud. Wtf?
> I so wanted to forge a WU transfer just to make him/her go and try to
> collect but decided it was too much effort.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Michael M
> 
> 
> I would think you would WANT to keep that 14 year old trying to brute
> force your PW.  It keeps him 
> from more profitable stuff like "you have won the hong kong lottery"
> scams.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> Doug Steele wrote:
>> Hi Jim:
>>
>> I have been using a Filezilla server for some time to transfer data
> from
>> clients.  The one annoying problem I have is that I'll look at the
> server
>> screen in the morning, and some 14 year old in China has been trying
> to
>> brute force the password all night, getting kicked off on every third
> wrong
>> guess then logging right back in.  I've never had a successful break
> in, but
>> it's annoying - do you have a solution for this?  I can't limit the
> incoming
>> ip range as the server is picking up data from client computers which
> can be
>> all over the place.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Doug
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>
> wrote:
>>> Hi Gustav:
>>>
>>> Why not try FileZila...many of my clients use this package because it
> is so
>>> secure. (http://filezilla-project.org)
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
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