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Originally Posted by fumanchu1
believe me Sarlacc, fraudster (the good ones) are much more fast, smart and creative than most people think (there is a new scam coming up all the time, hell I haven,t worked in credit card fraud for about 1 year and probably a whole lot of new scamming/fraud techniques that I am currently unaware of.
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I know. I've worked with eCommerce and online payment technology since the 1990's.
And you're absolutely right. The people trying to exploit technology are just as smart as those making the technology.
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Originally Posted by fumanchu1
... username, password, cc number and all other cc information needed to be sent to merchant by paypal. That would give him all the information he needs to make purchases.
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Fortunately, that's not quite how it works. PayPal never sends any of that to a merchant.
A "man in the middle" website will steal username, password and anything else it asks for and you chose to submit.
If it's a PayPal scam site, the fraudster will be able to do stuff with your PayPal account, but not with your credit card directly.
The distinction is important here because OP claims his credit card information has been stolen.
So there's either important parts of this story that is missing completely, or something have been misrepresented.
Which is a serious matter since a member has been accused of fraud.