Cambodia Daily slapped with multimillion dollar tax bill
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So another interesting development. I received an email from someone (not a poster) who believes that someone has obtained the credit card details of former subscribers to the CD and is now using this information to make fraudulent charges against their visa cards.
He had subscribed for online access for six months back in March, but that was a one off and he didn't believe that they should have stored his cc for future purchases. He has just received an email invoice purportedly on behalf of the CD (with a fake U.S. phone number listed), and his card was charged $50 the same day (today, Monday the 18th).
He is not sure what to think, that it could be someone trying to further discredit the paper or maybe they forgot to turn everything off. Has anyone else that was a subscriber had this happen to them?
He had subscribed for online access for six months back in March, but that was a one off and he didn't believe that they should have stored his cc for future purchases. He has just received an email invoice purportedly on behalf of the CD (with a fake U.S. phone number listed), and his card was charged $50 the same day (today, Monday the 18th).
He is not sure what to think, that it could be someone trying to further discredit the paper or maybe they forgot to turn everything off. Has anyone else that was a subscriber had this happen to them?
Having credit cards available for theft is by itself a PCI-DSS violation. It doesn't matter if it's an ex employee or someone else, if true they fucked up massively.
Tell the sender of the email to contact the FBI. They're going to love this one.
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Tell the sender of the email to contact the FBI. They're going to love this one.
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Like so much that gets posted here (to include everything I've ever read by Alexandra), this is horse shit. Digital subscriptions at the Daily were processed by a company called Stripe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe_(company)
We set it up that way so that credit card processing would be secure. Nobody in Cambodia, nobody at the Daily, no one except staff at Stripe would have any access to card numbers, cardholder addresses or PINs.
Could you guys try to be less consistently wrong? Some of you make Fresh News look credible by comparison.
We set it up that way so that credit card processing would be secure. Nobody in Cambodia, nobody at the Daily, no one except staff at Stripe would have any access to card numbers, cardholder addresses or PINs.
Could you guys try to be less consistently wrong? Some of you make Fresh News look credible by comparison.
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CDNext wrote:Like so much that gets posted here (to include everything I've ever read by Alexandra), this is horse shit. Digital subscriptions at the Daily were processed by a company called Stripe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe_(company)
We set it up that way so that credit card processing would be secure. Nobody in Cambodia, nobody at the Daily, no one except staff at Stripe would have any access to card numbers, cardholder addresses or PINs.
Could you guys try to be less consistently wrong? Some of you make Fresh News look credible by comparison.
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Stripe is good, they don't violate PCI-DSS.
I wouldn't put it beyond Khmer staff to mess things up, e.g. going out of their way to handle it via email. Time will tell if more people are affected than the person who emailed Miguelito.
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I wouldn't put it beyond Khmer staff to mess things up, e.g. going out of their way to handle it via email. Time will tell if more people are affected than the person who emailed Miguelito.
Bless
Wouldn't put it past some staff, Khmer or otherwise to mess things up if they could. Signup at the subscription interface is all https at Stripe. No one at the Daily, staff or management, would ever have access to card data as Stripe doesn't pass that through.
Occam's razor says original subscriber has it on autorenew and forgot. It happens. Cleanup will be a minor irritation--reversing a transaction--but nothing more.
Occam's razor says original subscriber has it on autorenew and forgot. It happens. Cleanup will be a minor irritation--reversing a transaction--but nothing more.
Sometimes I wish Alexandra wasn't such a nice girl and that she'd use some of her skills to do naughty stuff.
People who speak about themselves in the third person deserve a jolly good rogering.
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Maybe you need a service.violet wrote:^i spluttered a little
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Sorry I was out on a run and took me a bit to approve this post. Just wanted to make sure people saw it and it didn't get buried on the last page.CDNext wrote:Wouldn't put it past some staff, Khmer or otherwise to mess things up if they could. Signup at the subscription interface is all https at Stripe. No one at the Daily, staff or management, would ever have access to card data as Stripe doesn't pass that through.
Occam's razor says original subscriber has it on autorenew and forgot. It happens. Cleanup will be a minor irritation--reversing a transaction--but nothing more.
Run, jog, walk or stumble?
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