Posted on 01/29/2014 12:17:48 PM PST by aimhigh
I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter. I've been offered as much as $50,000 for it. People have tried to steal it. Password reset instructions are a regular sight in my email inbox. As of today, I no longer control @N. I was extorted into giving it up.
While eating lunch on January 20, 2014, I received a text message from PayPal for one-time validation code. Somebody was trying to steal my PayPal account. I ignored it and continued eating.
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I tried to log in to my GoDaddy account, but it didn't work. I called GoDaddy and explained the situation. The representative asked me the last 6 digits of my credit card number as a method of verification. This didn't work because the credit card information had already been changed by an attacker. In fact, all of my information had been changed. I had no way to prove I was the real owner of the domain name.
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For the younger generations it’s like the low number license plates in Delaware.
http://www.lowdigittags.com/29.html
always check the sender’s address by holding your cursor over the address or by clicking on it. most companies have an email fraud address that you can forward these fraud emails to so they can “try” and do something about it.
Big woopty do. Being in at the beginning is hardly a status symbol. I could see maybe a famous name brand or company but the letter n? $50K, snort, I'd have sold it for $5. But then I've never tweeted or facebooked and probably only sent one email in the past year. Wait, I'm sure all of you are on the edge of your seats wanting to know what I'm doing so, drum roll...... I'm typing on a computer!
just like phone numbers, e.g. 1-900-HOT-BABE
Or more generally any easily remembered number 777-777,
555-0000
:: That’s capitalism ::
According to PT Barnum.
caveat emptor!
Wouldn’t show an address , even the check-box on the side wanted to open the mail , oddest one I’ve ever had.
I wonder if it was an image?
Could have been ,,,,,
Seems like it would be reasonable to locate whoever begins using that stolen twitter name, and kill them. I would vote to acquit.
As for finding the N twitter name. Too bad we don’t have an agency that could track the use of it in real time. Or stop hacks of Target, etc etc.
They are too busy looking for political opponents of Obama.
Related: eBay will be sending out emails (legit) today advising customers to change their passwords.
PayPal users should do the same.
I would also change my email password and any other relevant passwords as well, “just in case”
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