Someone Missed the Memo

**One4yu2c** · May 29th, 2008

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Originally Posted by PC Pro

A hacker has used a loophole to collect more than $50,000 from Google Checkout and online brokerage firms, a few cents at a time.

When opening an online brokering account it is common practice for companies such as E-trade and Schwab to send a tiny payment - ranging from only a few cents to a couple of dollars - to verify that the user has access to the bank account listed. Services such as Google Checkout and Paypal use a similar tactic to verify credit and debit cards linked to accounts.

According to court documents, Californian Michael Largent used an automated script to open 58,000 such accounts, collecting many thousands of these small payments into a few personal bank accounts....

PC Pro: News: Hacker takes $50,000 a few cents at a time

**gvblake22** · May 29th, 2008

Oh man, he is definitely going to a Federal "Pound me in the ass" prison!

Hey Paul, by the way, have you seen my stapler?

**PrOLifIC_onE** · May 29th, 2008

screwballl · May 29th, 2008

Dailty Tech had this as well.. but the mention was not that he did it, which in itself was legal... the illegal part was that he used false names to signup for the accounts which is illegal.
It may have been legal if he had used his own name and SSN for the accounts.

**One4yu2c** · May 29th, 2008

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Originally Posted by screwballl

Dailty Tech had this as well.. but the mention was not that he did it, which in itself was legal... the illegal part was that he used false names to signup for the accounts which is illegal.

Full story, including why he's being prosecuted, is in the link.

screwballl · May 29th, 2008

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Originally Posted by One4yu2c

Full story, including why he's being prosecuted, is in the link.

fine I won't give a simple rundown here on your posts anymore

Badluck Inc · May 29th, 2008

Guess he should have used the new cover sheet for the TPS reports

**Hitman** · May 29th, 2008

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Originally Posted by gvblake22

Oh man, he is definitely going to a Federal "Pound me in the ass" prison!

Hey Paul, by the way, have you seen my stapler?

If all goes well I am going to show her my "O" Face.

**PrOLifIC_onE** · May 29th, 2008

O! O! O!

**Hitman** · May 29th, 2008

It's not that I am lazy, it's that I just don't care.

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screwballl Colonel Calamity Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sandy South Posts: 6,278 Blog Entries: 6	Re: Someone Missed the Memo Dailty Tech had this as well.. but the mention was not that he did it, which in itself was legal... the illegal part was that he used false names to signup for the accounts which is illegal. It may have been legal if he had used his own name and SSN for the accounts. Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.

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PrOLifIC_onE 5 Minute Mod Man Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Michigan Posts: 713 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Someone Missed the Memo O! O! O!

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