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January 29, 2014 11:22 am PST

Man loses rare Twitter handle after PayPal and GoDaddy inadvertently helpscammer

Naoki Hiroshima had a rare and valuable Twitter handle, @N. It was extorted from him, he claims, by a scammer who figured out that PayPal reveals part of one's credit card number during security verification—and that GoDaddy accepts the same part of the number during security verification.







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