Portillo, not to argue with you in any way but using a biz account for wire transfers doesn't prove a whole lot.
Yeah thats true... While sending a wire transfer to pay for a high-ticket product is safer than sending $5k by Western Union to a guy called "Borat Popovescu" in Romania... its not an assurance that everything is 100% legit.
Accounts can be opened using stolen identities with relative ease. Even if the guy selling gives you an address and phone number, whats to say the address is not some random building from the White Pages, and the phone number a prepaid cellphone or some cheap Voip number?
The only way that is relatively safe is credit card, if you get screwed over, its chargeback time. Of course, its a double edged sword... can also be used to screw over the seller by some unscrupulous idiots.
Man its really dangerous when a reputed members account gets hijacked... I am sure many people would be wary of paying hundreds or thousands to a noob with 4 posts, but let their guard down when its a known member of the forums, especially if it initially got admin approval.
Why do you guys have to be so fucking ruthless, I have done nothing but good to this forum.
Sorry if some people are mean to you miami
But how did this happen? How can the guy have gotten all your passwords to all your accounts? Did you get some kind of trojan on your PC? Do you use AV software and a firewall like Black Ice Defender which warns you when a new program is trying to connect to the Internet??
Also about that hijacker... since it seems his software IS an actual product that exists, and not some "take the money and run" scam, I dont get it why he didnt just create a website and sell it the "legit" way? He could have done a lot more damaging and "scammish" things with the BHW forum account, but all he did was sell some software/methods that helps create fake leads.
And since he did after all, hack a members account and provide the forum with utter dishonesty, why not post the stuff he was selling for free since the mods were given review copies??
Whats he going to do, complain to the FBI and say "Uhhhh.... I hacked all this guys accounts and impersonated him to deceive people, but now the people of the forum I scammed are violating my copyrights... Boohooo"