“Where’s the fucking money, you little brat !?!?”

So in the ongoing saga of my stolen money, Paypal has informed me that they will reimburse everything, which is good. The account number has been cancelled and will be changed.

When I went to look this morning to see if the payments had cleared so I could determine what was actually purchased, it looks like that nearly $900 in payments via Paypal to IGXE (an online trading post for selling of virtual gaming goods). So my guy had a stolen credit card number and used it to buy virtual goods in a video game? This is not a bright criminal.

Anyway, so I went on the IGXE website to chat with their tech people and let them know this happened. They took my information and then said that they would await instructions from Paypal. Then I asked if there was anything else I needed to do.

you: anythign else i need to do?
jason: we will take attention to your this accident.
jason: thanks for your response
you: where are you from?
jason: Is there any thing i can do for you?
you: i’m curious to know where you’re from
jason: donot worry
you: i’m not worried
you: i’m just wondering
you: because it’s obvious that english isn’t your first language
jason: ^^
you: so where are you from then? india? honestly, it doesn’t matter to me. i’m honestly curious.
jason: usa
you: is english your first language?
jason: yes
you: sorry, buddy. i don’t buy it.
you: it’s really not a big deal. i’ve lived all over the world and i’m interested in talking with people from various places. you just don’t seem american to me.
you: but if you insist that you are there’s nothign ic an do
you: but thanks anyway
jason: it is my pleasure
you: in case you were wondering how i knew
you: “we will take attention to your this accident.”
you: is not standard english grammar
jason: sorry for it
you: nor does it actually make sense
you: so, out with it — where are you from?
you: what’s the big deal in telling me?
you: and “sorry for it” is not something that a native english speaker would say
you: are you israeli?
Chat Information Chat session has been terminated by the site operator.

I guessed Israeli after India didn’t take because when I looked up Liveperson.net, the company that provides the service to IGXE, they have offices in the US and in Israel.

I wonder why he wanted to hide it so much.

Arturo Ryman

An “Arturo Ryman” has made nearly $900 in payments to PayPal using my debit card number. Somehow he got ahold of it, even though I didn’t lose the card. Now I can’t withdraw cash for the next week.

Let me just make a shout out right now to Mr. Ryman. Hey, Arturo? Fuck you.

Print Insists It’s Here to Stay

This is absurd. Print newspapers as we know them will be dead within my lifetime. Why should I pick up a stack of dead trees and read the news a day after it actually happens, when I can get up-to-the-minute information from that same news source electronically?

Magazines, on the other hand, feature magazines, like the New Yorker or Wired, I don’t think will die. Why? Because they don’t rely on immediate breaking news for their bread and butter. I read the NYT for daily news (and I read it online) and I read Wired to be informed and to think. A month old issue of Wired has a much better shelf life than a month old issue of the NYT.

Blogs Abound

So I’m reading this article about Jerry Brown’s blog.

“Everyone who has something interesting to say cannot afford not to be saying it in a blog as well,” said Sreenath Sreenivasan, a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism who follows the blogosphere.

Speaking of blogs, Happy Birthday to Dave Winer.