Anybody use BTConnect?

[sbrooks]

Hi Everyone,

I thought I'd post here as this was one of the first websites to come up when I did a search for "BT Forum".

I just wanted to warn anybody who uses btconnect's email service for their business that they need to be EXTRA careful when using it to receive payments or sensitive information.

I run a web shop and recently had an incident where one of my customers accidentally sent a rather large paypal payment to me{ at }btconnect(dot)co

However rather than it being returned because they accidentally mis-typed 'com', the payment actualy was accepted - BY SOMEONE ELSE!

It turns out that someone has registered the domain name 'btconnect . co' and is intercepting all email sent to it!

So, be warned!

Su.

 

[mit74]

Hi Everyone,

I thought I'd post here as this was one of the first websites to come up when I did a search for "BT Forum".

I just wanted to warn anybody who uses btconnect's email service for their business that they need to be EXTRA careful when using it to receive payments or sensitive information.

I run a web shop and recently had an incident where one of my customers accidentally sent a rather large paypal payment to me{ at }btconnect(dot)co

However rather than it being returned because they accidentally mis-typed 'com', the payment actualy was accepted - BY SOMEONE ELSE!

It turns out that someone has registered the domain name 'btconnect . co' and is intercepting all email sent to it!

So, be warned!

Su.

wow people think of everything don't they? Was a bit stupid allowing .co really as so many people make the mistake of leaving the m off.