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The purpose of this topic is to help aggrieved consumers to decide whether they are being scammed, flimflammed, and/or bamboozled by paid word-of-mouth advertisers employed or contracted by, or working on behalf of unscrupulous online payment services.

While normally the focus here is to avoid personal issues, the information coming to light begs to be documented and further explored. The overwhelming possibility, now at last publicly exposed and supported by a trail of facts, that this person is in fact an ebay/paypal/liveworld employee/contractor, or acting as an agent for compensation on their behalf elevates her to a legitimate target of criticism.

On the morning of August 19th, 2010, a topic appeared on the paypal board at the ebay community forums:

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Here is the screencap which was embedded at that post:
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Here is a google cached image of that entire page, showing the above screencapture in context:

2008 The Year eBay Lost Its Mojo NEWS cached post_1739

That posting, #1739, was miraculously deleted within record time after the above as you can still see here at the moment.

Seems odd, yes?

Later on that same day another thread topic appeared:

I was reading the older archived forum threads and found this

The pertinent post:

 

"We have a saying in German - "Keine Antwort ist auch eine Antwort" ("No answer is also an answer"). Hint: it basically means, that the answer would be a crystal clear admission of what has been alleged by asking the question.
Why is no one surprised at Sandy's refusal to give answers?
'nuther hint:
There's a Max Mancini serving as "Senior Director for Platforms and Disruptive Innovation" for eBay. He is married to Sandra-Jane Purins-Mancini. According to what my friend in Riga told me, "Purins" is not a very common name... The chance of finding two persons going by the name Sandra Purins in California seem about as big as finding two persons going by the name of Barack Obama in Washington DC...

Lets see how many seconds this post stays..."

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Image of the entire thread. You may have to click to enlarge/expand

Very interesting indeed. Now that coupled with search findings and other curious postings found hither and yon, a clear picture may be formed by anyone wishing to spend just a little time tracking a few things down to see for themselves.

Must read postings, with accompanying links/further reading.

From the lips of Lieworld

where you will see this:

''our LiveWorld moderators or community managers are acting as agents of the brand on the brands digital property, and that not explicitly disclosing that they are paid by LiveWorld is much like a part-time employee/contractor from the brand itself wouldnt be expected to state so''
Bryan Person, March 5, 2010
LiveWorld Social Media Evangelist

Trolls, Hooners, Cyber Stalkers - the Dark Side of the Net

edit: 12.21.2010 adding screencapture of cached page, ^ as relevant content appears to have changed/been removed.

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Now just for laughs, have a look at how the hackers spent April Fools Day 2007, and a very very sad video asking why this person still pumps paypal after having her very own account hacked!



rotflmaoooolololololololol

OK, but back to being serious.

If everyone was not aware, the practice of using paid undisclosed endorsers, or "word of mouth advertisers" is against FTC guildlines. In the context we observe at the paypal, forum it is part of a clear and continuing pattern of behavior which appears to be fraudulent: wrongful enrichment via deception.

Paypal is gaining interest (as well as additional interest from investements thereof) on monies held and accounts frozen for no good reason, without explanation. The paid poser acts to interject falsehoods, ignore issues, deflect, divert, nitpick, pettifog, etc; To steer the notion that paypal/ebay are at fault, even by way of deletion/banning, interfering with auction listings and the list goes on and on.

If you feel you have been victimized, cheated, swindled, or treated unfairly, or that others have or may be, and you have good reason to believe that this person is behaving or operating outside the letter of the law, please file complaints to the FTC, your State's Atty General, the Califorinai State AG, the Nebraska State AG, consider hiring a private atty and filing suit, or finding a class action suit.

(you can find all the links you need at my blog on the left hand menu area)

Also, do not be afraid to confront this person on the various paypal fora she provides her services at (within the rules) to get an answer on way or another. A firm yes or no.

Persons in her physical vicinity, don't be afraid to find out up close and personal. Of course I'm not advising anything other than to find out the facts in whatever way they can casually, cleverly, peacefully and legally.

Maybe that person should consider leaving paypal frontline PR work alone, lest they open a huge can of legal worms for the already much despised ebay/paypal crumbling empire, as well as unknown risks faced personally?

I feel it very safe to believe that person, along with the other suspected paypal forum paid word-of-mouth-advertisers/shills/trolls has done equal to or more to foster anti-paypal sentiments than the kookaninnie policies.

And should that person happen to be reading here, they need to be aware that they are now a public figure. Don't be surprised someday, somehow, somewhere... someone walks up and says; "Smile, you're on Cappnonymous camera."

 

 

Because unlike them, we are only in it for the LoLz.

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Comments, questions... concerns?


 

08.27.2010- added quote, screencapture and corrected spelling

12.21.2010 added screencapture of cached blog page






-- Edited by budnonymous on Wednesday 22nd of December 2010 01:38:06 AM

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It has been a commonly known fact this person, along with several other noted 'paypal defenders', posted on SimplyHired chat forums. This of course gives rise to real and reasonable concerns that they are all paid representatives of some company contracted through or associated with SimpyHired

SimplyHired is an employment seeking/fulfilling website. It is also common knowledge that both ebaY and LiveWorld have had jobs posted there.

Now, suddenly, those postings have been edited, as noted also here on a paypal forum thread. That's right! After many years... Here is a topic which also evaporated.
Another topic went poof!
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Here is the google cache of the SimplyHired forum page before editing:

There sure has been a flurry of very unsually timed editing and deletions, yes?

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Knowing that this practice of shilling/ being a paid endorser without proper disclosure is illegal, and in it's larger context, ei; the amount of money involved, and the number of victims, over the length of time, the tactics used, the other proven episodes of ebaY/paypal misbehaviour & scandal ...
Surely this sort of thing rises to to a higher level of misconduct?



-- Edited by budnonymous on Friday 27th of August 2010 03:24:55 AM

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Moderation notice:

I've just removed 2 posts here which are believed to have been made by one individual using 2 seperate impersonation accounts, one of which was previously verified fake/improper and banned.

Once again, the rules here prohibit the use of look-alike or false personation accounts. One ID per person without prior approval by the Admin.

 

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Guess who that was? The villain herself, she posted it here...

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Paypal/Fraud-Wow/520285977&start=75

BTW, Miss Purins, DON'T YOU DARE LECTURE ME ABOUT HONESTY AND INTEGRITY!!!!

 

 



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Will wonders ever cease?

Hmmm...It's a little early and there is  blood in my caffeinestream, but something seems fishy.

oh my!
Does that mean that when someone signed up in way back in 2006, when the alleged unauthorized use of that ID was met with vociferous denials and protests, the Admin contacted, the ID subsequently closed out and banned, that it was in fact the actual person denying they ever posted here?

 



-- Edited by budnonymous on Thursday 2nd of June 2011 06:37:27 AM

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budnonymous wrote:

Will wonders ever cease?

Hmmm...It's a little early and there is  blood in my caffeinestream, but something seems fishy.

oh my!
Does that mean that when someone signed up in way back in 2006, when the alleged unauthorized use of that ID was met with vociferous denials and protests, the Admin contacted, the ID subsequently closed out and banned, that it was in fact the actual person denying they ever posted here?

 

 

 

 

I can confirm that the first post *removed/denied' was made by an individual who registered in August 2006, and logged in with that very same account.

The account was verified (at that time) to be a "look-alike" by the Admin. The Admin made notations to the effect they were contacted by the alleged victim.

Due to that fact, they were restricted, therefore the post needed to be approved (or denied) before it became publicly visible.

 Before I had a chance to locate and look into everything, the very same person registered another account and posted another post, using a variation of the same name. - Within a scant few minutes.

From there, draw your own conclusions.

So, the first post was denied due to the fact that the ID was alleged and verified to be a look-alike/false personation account.

The second account and post was denied because it broke the rule of only one ID per person.

The IP was banned in order to prevent further game playing/abuse.

As far as I could tell at the time, it was someone other than who the name actually 'belonged' to, attempting to misuse/abuse the name. Again, considering they logged in and posted first with the very same account/credentials as the look-alike from August 2006 ID.

 Perhaps the individual should have considered not trying to play mind games or breaking the rules here? (starting back then)

 


 

 

Edit: corrected phraseology; "... rule of only one ID ..."



-- Edited by Moderator 1 on Thursday 2nd of June 2011 08:45:45 AM

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Wow, she's really p'ed off about this, take a look at the link to the thread above...

And now she's going after my blog as well. Aren't we the worst troublemakers?



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from the Mighty Cappnonymous Archives:

Does this seem rather odd to anyone?

Why would a mere casual forum poster start calling legal offices and grill or pump their people for info on Paypal lawsuits?

 

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Have A Nice Day.

 

Edit to update: I see some of these images have mysteriously become unavailable. here's the nitty gritty from the one above:

2007 Paypal Account Being closed _lack of credit history_ $873_00 180 days_sandy_called_Law_office_to_Pump_info_single_post_640.png

 

The others will be made availaable either here or elsewhere.

Thanks to the tipster for letting me know the images had gone unusable :)

 


here are the images which were rendered unusable for whatever reason:


paste into new browser tab or window. You'll need to use the grey download button once you get there.

zip file: sandypurins_simplyhired_etc.zip

https://anonfiles.com/file/1f24d9337afe34cac99378a77d130ffb

10.7 MB


I ran the file at virustotal to make sure nothing extra was added. You can verify after you download if you feel the need.

virustotal report:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c25e29db8accfbb93d1ca8bc27133e0a746ee32315b108539311a7c35ea0c90c/analysis/1366732682/

 

 

Have A Nice Day.



-- Edited by budnonymous on Tuesday 23rd of April 2013 10:08:18 AM

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