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Posted 2008-May-28, 17:47
Please let me know about any questions or interest or bug reports about GIB.
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Posted 2008-May-28, 18:17
wow... i'm not sure the law should get involved in this, except to help this guy collect from paypal (assuming he didn't break the terms of service)
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Posted 2008-May-28, 18:21
The use of fake names raises an eyebrow.
That said, I'm not sure how this guy should get in trouble. Corporations do this stuff all the time, in a manner of speaking. I'd like to be able, for instance, to hold every money transaction for one minute.
With a return of, say, a mere 5%, I'd want maybe $250,000 a year. That would mean that I would have to have about $5,000,000 in the bank. If $5,000,000 changed hands per minute, I'd have it. That's about $300,000,000 per hour, or $7,200,000,000 per day. I'd bet that about $7 Billion changes hands each day, when you add it all up.
That said, I'm not sure how this guy should get in trouble. Corporations do this stuff all the time, in a manner of speaking. I'd like to be able, for instance, to hold every money transaction for one minute.
With a return of, say, a mere 5%, I'd want maybe $250,000 a year. That would mean that I would have to have about $5,000,000 in the bank. If $5,000,000 changed hands per minute, I'd have it. That's about $300,000,000 per hour, or $7,200,000,000 per day. I'd bet that about $7 Billion changes hands each day, when you add it all up.
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Posted 2008-May-28, 18:39
kenrexford, on May 28 2008, 07:21 PM, said:
The use of fake names raises an eyebrow.
It doesn't just 'raise an eyebrow'.
If there's a "limit one per customer" for something free (and for Paypal it's actually a limit of two accounts per customer), and you use a fake name to get more stuff, you've committed theft at the very least, and in this case probably wire fraud to boot.
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Posted 2008-May-28, 21:20
Actually, in Ohio one could, in theory, be extremely undecided about one's common law name changes.
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Posted 2008-May-28, 22:31
kenrexford, on May 28 2008, 10:20 PM, said:
Actually, in Ohio one could, in theory, be extremely undecided about one's common law name changes.
Could you vote using each of those names?
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Posted 2008-May-29, 13:32
I am sure it comes under the heading of "theft by deception," or fraud.
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