Online Payment! Fraud ?

[Dray_04]

this guy that im buying diablo 2 off, at an online trading store in New Zealand, is a con artist i think....

he emailed me saying that the payment is quick easy and secure, but im no average joe when it comes to computers and internet, but i just want to make extra sure that he is lying so i can get this FUCKWIT off www.trademe.co.nz for ever....

...here is the "SECURE" online payment form...

can you guys quickly tell me if its a con or not, and what i should say to him if it is,... cause i really want to get this guy in trouble


thanks

secure?? online payment form

[shn]

No, dont buy anything from that prick. Online "secure" web forms use https connections so that the data sent can be encrypted over the internet.

If you examine closely you will see that a java script pops up saying "you are about to view pages over a secure connection" Normally for an htps connection your browser will give such a prompt unless you disable it. This is obviously a script they developed on their end, because it never forwards you to an https. The browser still shows it as :

http://www28.brinkster.com/securewww/1492.htm

when you should have been redirected to something like :

https://www28.brinkster.com/securewww/1492.htm

Mind you some people are so cheap that they dont like to use adequate online billing processors with secure connections, but If thats the case then they could always at least use pay pal

I never purchase anything on the net unless the form Im filling out is https. And that fake ass javascript pop up makes it look all the more suspicious.

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[Marius24]

i would say fraud

[Ynhockey]

I agree with what was said above, it's obviously a fraud. First of all, no serious site where you can buy stuff is located on a free host (Brinkster). Second of all, as SHN said, it's not HTTPS and the JS alert with the security warning is obviously trying to fool n00bs... otherwise, why would they make it ? Anyone with a little knowledge of JS can guess what it is...

[h1]

Bullshit.

[shn]

Then it lets you submit without putting in any data and gives you this shit:

We Are Currently Connecting
To Your Bank's Computers.

Please Wait ...

[Dray_04]

thanks guys,

i knew he was bullshit.

im gona get his ass kicked. Cheers

[Mr. Blunt]

Originally posted by shn@18 February 2004 - 10:35


Then it lets you submit without putting in any data and gives you this shit:

We Are Currently Connecting
To Your Bank's Computers.

Please Wait ...

Did you get this after?

Error #552

The connection to your bank or credit card company failed.Try again later.
If you continue to have difficulties, please try another card.

Then about after 10 seconds, it forwards me to: https://www.ibillcs.com/

[Robert00000]

This guy is dumb. Its straight forward to create a secure site by using a shared certificate.

If he wanted to steal peoples credit card info he could have made more of an effort

By the way one of my previous domain registrar asked me to send them photocopies of both sides of my credit card and documents with my address on it because they said it was to prevent credit card fraud . Yeh right, like i was born yesterday, i told them where to go.

The next day they emailed me back saying the domain was successfully registered without me needing to provide all those documents

[4play]

lol this seems quite a clever scam to catch newbies out. shows you should always look for https connections and read certificates to see who issued them.

i wonder what would happen if the site suddenly got flooded with a list of fake credit card numbers.

having to wade through a list of a few thousand credit card numbers might make his job a little bit harder.

/me goes off to write script and use his fav ccnumber generator.

edit: looks like the data gets submited to www.hform.com submit it more then 50 times and he gets charged