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09 January 2008

Cross-posty. I look for advice there. I look for commiseration and mojo here.
That sucks.

Wasn't that going on with the guy on AskMe who was pissed off about Ebay locking him out? Is this a widespread Ebay/Hotmail fraud problem?
posted by occhiblu 09 January | 15:19
Wow. Sucktastic. What a monumental pain in the arse.

*whuffles mudpuppie & gf of mudpuppie*
posted by elizard 09 January | 15:55
Ugh. That's totally frustrating. I'm sorry, pups (and girlfriend).
posted by jrossi4r 09 January | 16:01
how creepy and annoying! good luck..
posted by By the Grace of God 09 January | 16:19
Call me Mr. Gloom and Doom, but has she checked to see if anyone has been sniffing around her bank accounts? If your girlfriend used her real name and personal information to set up the Hotmail account, whoever is doing this now has that. If she ever used that mail account for anything business related, some nasty connections might be made.

Probably a stretch, but I prefer to err on the side of paranoia.
posted by King of Prontopia 09 January | 16:55
She froze her bank account and has contacted all her credit card companies, and it all looks okay.

Meantime, we've found the gmail address of this jackass. He tried to change her PayPal username to his own username. During the process of changing her PayPal password (she was on the phone with PayPal at the time, and they led her through some special back door portal), she was taken to a web form that had this guy's gmail address automatically filled in.

So now that we have it, what do we do with it?

If it's not possible to get his gmail account suspended, I saw we inundate him with thousands of bunny pictures.

And Hotmail still hasn't responded, the bastards.
posted by mudpuppie 09 January | 17:10
saw = say
posted by mudpuppie 09 January | 17:11
Scam-bait? Maybe you can get a wood-carving out of it.
posted by pokermonk 09 January | 17:31
That's just crappy. Send the God Bunny after the bad person. Fie on you, scammer! Vengeance is the GodBunny's!!
posted by theora55 09 January | 20:29
Not sure this was the best cause of action, but I Olena'd him. Don't know what it's going to get me, but maybe it will get Olena something.
posted by mudpuppie 10 January | 01:04
What would make someone do something like this? || Bunny Salad

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