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Close - they bought one gift card, and then used Starbucks' website to transfer the money from Jonathan's card to their own.
by carbonica 15y ago
Close - they bought one gift card, and then used Starbucks' website to transfer the money from Jonathan's card to their own.
- bluelu 15y agoSo they hacked his account and stole money. I guess that's illegal... and will put you in front of a judge.
- woof 15y agoAnd how did he get the Card Security Code (PIN)?
- true_religion 15y agoThey either guessed or brute forced it. Both of which are essentially illegal computer hacking. I don't know about you, but I'm not going to do business with someone (here the Founder of Freshplum) if they enjoy hacking credit accounts in their free time. His reason for doing so is so poor that I worry about his ethics in other affairs.
- aforty 15y agoBut he specifically mentioned having to physically be at the Starbucks. Why would he do that if he had cracked the PIN? I think there's a way for them to transfer from one card to another, physically at the stores POS system. Can't think of anything else.
- true_religion 15y agoHe went to the starbucks, first, to buy another gift card. Then he used the website to transfer funds.
- kennywinker 15y agoAs he states here in the google plus comment thread: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113956160418597123621/posts/MAqht3NBAp1 https://plus.google.com/u/0/113956160418597123621/posts/MAqh... "to transfer the money off the card I had to do it IRL, at a Starbucks location"