Paypal EXPOSED???

[I_W]

According to messages elsewhere there is going to be a TV program with some interviews both of those who say Paypal took their money and with a representative of PayPal.

This should be interesting for those of us who have used Paypal in the past and who have become concerned about the stories/rumors of problems and security.

I know nothing about the validity of the reports that this program will air and know nothing about it on other than satellite TV.

Tuesday, 2/5/02 8:30 PM EST. Cybercrime on TechTV

The information I saw says:
Dish Network on channel #191
Channel 354 on DirecTV

I have no idea about where else it might be broadcast. If anybody finds out any further information for those of us without satellite TV do post it.

[phenious]

Will be interesting to see how this turns out maybe TechTV is trying for higher ratings?

-: phenious :-

[charmler]

Please supply those of us who are unfortunate enough to have cable service with any startling developments in this story.

[vass0922]

could also check out techtv.com

[Mead]

I couldnt find anything on Techtv.com about this, but I did some googling and found this site. http://www.ygoodman.com/paypal.html From there I found this http://www.auctionwatch.com/mesg/rea...47&thread=4809 on that page there was this
"Will the woman who was mistakenly charged $6000 please call me right away.. I would like to do a TV interview with her for a story TechTV is doing about Paypal.
My phone number is (415)355-4085.
Thanks"
That leads me to believe that TechTV is doing a story on Paypal, but cant find any more information about the story itself. If anyone else finds anything i'd love to see it.

[charmler]

I also did some crawling and found this year old story from Salon.com. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...pal/index.html

[ChoaticWhisper]

http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/
right over on the right side Preview our 2/5 PayPal episode Theres a preview video of it, Im on a bad connection, So I didnt watch it.
EDIT: Heres a direct link

[charmler]

I watched the promo on the TechTV site. It was just a blurb leading me to believe that they found some disgruntled users of PayPal that ordered stuff that wasn't delivered. They ask "who should pay?" when the user states that PayPal locked his account so he couldn't get the money owed him by another user. I would like someone to watch the story, but can't find any sat users. Anyone want to volunteer to take notes?

[I_W]

It's merely a teaser for the program on Tuesday.

I am not familiar with their site. Do the programs appear relatively completely after they've broadcast so you can view them over the Internet?

On FatWallet there was an inquiry 2 or 3 weeks ago by a person who wanted to interview people who had experiences to report in dealing with PayPal. I suspect it was for this program.

[Speed]

Well I checked with my cable provider and its on like 5 times tomarrow. I set a reminder for all of them, I'm sure I'll be watching TV when one of them comes on. On Adelphia Digital cable its on channel 129 Tech TV @ 8:00am, 10:30am, 3:00pm, 5:30pm and 8:30pm.

Dave.