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Re: credit card fraud

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 00:23
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Mark Anderson wrote
> SMS wrote

>> What's amazing is that there are non-sellers dumb enough
>> to link their checking account to their PayPal account.

> After a certain amount of transactions paypal requires
> that you link to a checking account instead of a credit card.

No it doesnt. I still have just two credit cards linked.

> I ran up against this on one of my last ebay transactions a bunch of years ago.
> Paypal refused the transaction so I ended up paying the old fashioned
> way -- by money order. Then it was fuck paypal and fuck ebay for
> pretty much requiring paypal for every auction.  There are plenty of
> ways to get stuff off the Internet other than ebay and most of the
> stuff listed on ebay is overpriced crap bid up by morons who don't
> know what things cost in the real world.

You're lying, as always.

> Who was it who said "No one ever went broke underestimating the
> intelligence of the American people?"  Ebay and paypal are perfect
> successful examples of that phenomenon!

You're lying, as always.
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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: credit card fraud
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:23:45 +1000
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