Stolen Linden, not a good start to the day!

[Shoki Feden]

Well it was a bit of a shock this morning to fine all my linden was stolen,

I have a "sell to group only" vendor which sells full perm animations to members of a group only, and if you are not in the group and you try to buy anything it refunds your money saying "sorry your not in the right group" anyway, this guy and his partner and some other person all within about 10mins somehow made it refund them twice!

 

So.. they paid it 1500l$, it refunded then 3000l$, this was repeated till all my money was taken which is why I woke up to no linden (tho when I set these scripts up I tested, and it has refunded perfectly OK in the past) so why I have no idea but that’s not mainly the reason for this post but if you know then please share!

 

Abuse reports all done, ticket sent to linden and a quick phone call and im waiting to see what happens.

 

Reason for this post is:

 

A) anyone know how this is poss?

B) A heads up to not ever keep more linden than you want to loose on your account, it was only a matter of hours since I reported this to LL so I cant say if or if not they will help however if there are people running about doing this. It is only fair and right I let you lot know to maybe make you think about your scripts and security.

oh and one of the people who stole has in there profile under 1st life "I work in law" god help us all! and the other was with a well known security company in the USA, what on earth is wrong with these people.

 

Be safe!

 

Shoki :matte-motes-grin:



[Peewee Musytari]

Hopefully LL will be able to see the double refunds & fix the problem. Did you also check the group account to make sure that the vendor wasn`t paying half the money to you and half to the group, it could be that is where your money is sitting.

[Shoki Feden]

thanks I hope so also.

 

No it is not a split, what i see on my history is them paying the vendor then "object pay" giving them 2 payments in return for every one they make. If only it is sitting somewhere I could get it, currently it is sitting on this guys account and his partners and there mates account.

 

Interesting thing is I checked all there profiles and they where all offline, I tried to IM them you see, I then did an abuse report and not one of the people I reported are showing in search anymore.

Maybe LL temp ban them im not sure.

 

Ill update this with the outcome when I get a reply

[Aurelia Lionheart]

Altho it's very unethical what they did, if it's a flaw in your system a ban for these people seems a bit harse.
Maybe better if Linden takes the amounts back from their account and returns it to you and gives them a warning.

Hope this will be sorted out for you soon!

[Shoki Feden]

Thanks me also,

 

However I do not agree about a ban being to harsh if they are or wil be banned. Even is it is a problem with the script, when you expose a weakness and extort it for gain it is a crime in RL, and so I would hope that these actions would be in some way handled with extream severity in a virtual world. However I would just settle for my money back

[Marianne McCann]

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Shoki Feden wrote:

A) anyone know how this is poss?

 

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You actually described the issue well. Without going into too much detail, it is an exploit of the dialogue for filling in any amount and getting refunded. I saw something similar a couple years back with old Moopf vendors (an issue Mooph patched years ago, too).

Best of luck on the return of your money. :-)

[Void Singer]

first bit of advice... pick up that vendor... it's broken.

second bit of advice, get someone to to look at what's wrong with the script and fix it before putting it back out. personally I advise not using automated refunds.... those types of refunds should be so rare that they are more safely and easily handled manually.

[Shoki Feden]

All money has been returned by the lindens, thanks linden! your awsome.

[Argus Collingwood]

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Shoki Feden wrote:

All money has been returned by the lindens, thanks linden! your awsome.

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YAY! Sometimes things do go right;-)

[Void Singer]

good to hear that part worked out.