Pbarb2: A tip for everyone who has PayPal, Banking online, etc...

If ANY place sends you an e-mail saying they need updated information, like PayPal, etc... DO NOT - EVER - follow the link that is in the e-mail.

For example, if PayPal send you a message saying something needs updated, DO NOT click the link. - Go to your web browser and type in http://www.paypal.com - and go to the site that way and sign in.... and once you sign in there, if there is something that needs done - it will there let you know. Otherwise, it was probable a scammer where the link in the e-mail might look real - but sends you to their own page to collect information that is entered there. (Same with ebay, any bank, or really - any account you have.)

Take an extra 30 seconds and go type in the address yourself rather then follow links. And if it is your bank or something, call them on the phone. I don't know of any bank that will ask you to update information over the web - they will call you, or want you to call them.

Pbarb2: On the General settings page, in the section "other parameters" you'll see two boxes "Allow other users to send fellowship invitations" and "Allow other users to send tournament invitations" to either have ticked or unticked.

Eriisa: Yes, thats the name spoof. Another year older and another memory block. LOL I am ok..but just wanted others to know so they don't get onto the same thing. Maybe they are smarter than I was.

Eriisa: Where in the settings.. I looked and couldn't find anything. That is why I asked here. LOL

Pbarb2: It is by default, I guess. He can change it on his settings page.

Pbarb2: Those are called spoof emails. People will send them out to look like PayPal or eBay or your bank.

First rule of thumb... never click any links in an email. Just to to the website on a fresh page and log in.

one hint on Paypal emails, is that it will have your full name in the Dear So&So line. Not your email address, or anything else. BUT I have been getting spoofs with my name lately. I think however, its because I'm an ebay seller and someone got my info off a sale.

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Someone has on their profile not to send them fellowship invites. How does he get that off? He said, he did not put that there. He is getting fellowhip invites by some link they are sending him. I have no idea how to do that and would rather send it the regular way...but somehow there is a block there to
not send invites to fellowships. Does anyone know what to do?
He is also on webtv.

Purple: I have webtv and used PayPal ewver since I had to pay for game memberships.
Not to long ago someone sent me a message saying that I had to update. I went in to update and first thing it said was give my credit card number. It was on the offical PayPal sheet so I did it. As I was sending it I caught the date of that page was 2005 not 2007. It was to late to get it back.
I then called PayPal and they confirmed it was not anything they sent out. They suggested I get my credit card number canceled and a new one sent. They said they were going to check it out and with the law enforcement and get the people sending these out. So about 2 weeks ago I got the same thing. I sent it to the PayPal and they again said it was not anything they sent out. Someone is trying to get credit card numbers. Please beware of that. I did not try to use PayPal since this happened. So hope when it is time to renew it works.
Oops forgot...this page to fill my credit card number was not in the secure part of PayPal.
I wrote this so all who use PayPal beware of this happening.

Position after mancala:

Medal table:

1. - 4. Dominika, Southern Korea, Russia and Serbia 1 - 0 - 0
5. Uganda 0 - 2 - 0
6. - 7. Germany and Poland 0 - 1 - 0
8. Slovakia 0 - 0 - 3
9. Belgium 0 - 0 - 1

rod03801: One last off-topic post. If I could (use PayPal) don't you think I would? I even went so far as to talk to them on the phone for 20 min. The end result is that everything was fine except for one thing. I needed to confirm by e-mail my password etc and they have a hyper-link I had to use which webtv doesn't recognize. The really strange part is when I renewed my GoldToken membership with my credit card THEY automatically rolled it over and it was billed through my credit card to my non-existant PayPal account. And I have not been smoking. lol

rod03801: Oops

emmett: Sorry about the misunderstanding. I was addressing my comment towards Purple, as he says it can't be used with WebTV. I used WebTV for years until recently, and used PayPal all the time.

Eriisa:

redfrog: he does, doesn't he......

Purple: I don't understand why you say paypal can't be used. I think I will hook my webtv back up this afternoon and check it out. I'll buy some brains with it or something. (No comments!, lol)

gogul: One needs an address to send it to. Even though he is well known "Fencer..Czech Rep" won't get it there. lol

Purple: Common Purp. Not hard at all to send cash. Isn't there a webtv-f/s? Soon enough we'll know if you can paypal with it. Letters to the Czech Rep. with money in it should be send regristred (strongly recomanded, appart the possibility that sending money by mail to the czechs isn't allowed maybe, that is why he wouldn't offer it as a payment method), otherwise noone should cry if he tells you: no, no letter arrived.
They go through many hands, and a thief checking 3000 letters each day will take 30€ with pleasure.
Money with its addicions brings the world to an end, as a matter of fact.

Fencer: Here is a plan. Publish the address where you recieve your mail and we can send cash. The amounts are usually too small to warrant theivery or mail theft. There is about $1.75 postage to mail overseas but that's no big deal. If American dollars are no good anymore then the world is coming to an end. :)

Fencer: I'm sorry F. I have only shopped with large "corporate" companies online so far, so my statement was too broad and ill-informed.
My passionate response regarding Paypal stemmed from the very, very frustrating experience I had with them. I claimed that I would never pay for a brainking membership again after that experience. Of course, your charisma and my connection with brainking has since turned that decision around.

emmett: "Every other company does"? That's really funny. Have you ever tried to accept credit cards directly? I have been negotiating with several banks regarding this issue and their policy is very disadvantageous for me, compared to PayPal. That's why we don't support it, at least not now.

 

alanback: Hehe Yup czech's checks only!

pauloaguia:  So your saying Fencer accepts Czech banks but not bank cheques?

Hrqls:  I assume you're saying it works that way for translators, because it does not do so for me.

pauloaguia: maybe he doesnt want to use money transfers due to the bank charges.

Eriisa: I liked to have a watch on other typefaces, ru, bg as well for Bulgarian.
Wonders what Reza's work will look like once

Purple: There is an option for transferring the money directly to Fencer's account. I never understood exactly why that option says Czech Republic only... International money transfers are a perfectly valid and easy form of payment and I know of many people that prefer them to the hassle of using PayPal (and sometimes it's cheapper too, especially if within the Euro zone )

"Snoopy": Yes - you will continue. As long as a person is there for the start, even if they are a pawn or even no longer with the fellowship or team - they will continue and finish what was started in the team tournament. (At least I'm pretty sure of that.)

Purple: Did this change recently??? When I had WebTV I used PayPal ALL the time.

emmett: Fencer won't take checks or even for that matter.

Purple: Because Brainking doesn't accept credit cards, but every other company does. That's why I gave Fencer's blog today a vote of negative one. The last time I tried to use paypal, I put in the wrong address by accident, then they made me wait five weeks before they would accept payment, just to confirm through visa that I was who I said I was.

Eriisa: I have talked to them on the phone and they keep sending me e-mail with unusuable hyper-links for confirmation.

Purple: hey, I got a solution!!! Find a friend with a PC! lol


Seriously tho, I wonder why Paypal would not have a gateway for webtv when they have a gateway for cel phones.

im still involved in
Inverleven
we have a great chance going thou to next round if this happens even thou im not in that fellowship anymore would i still be playing on there team

It is stated that there are 5 options. As a webtv user I can't find one. PayPal is no good because it wont support webtv hyperlinks, same with Moneybrokers. The BK Representatives are gone, Credit Cards are no good and there is not even an addy to send cash. Fencer..why is is SO hard to give you money? LOL

tippyc: the xx will show the internal variable names instead of the real text

so the first few lines in the main menu on the left will show :
Global_GameHeader
Global_MainPageLink (28)
Global_NewGameLink
Global_WaitingGamesLink (2015)

while the 'send' button to send this message shows 'boards_send' and the button to send this edited message shows 'boards_editthispost'

the translators assign the real text to those keycodes .. the site shows the real text of the selected language to the user .. to make it more readable ;)

alanback: i think the xx will show you the language that the page was originally written in, which in most cases will probably be english, maybe czech

just a guess, but it might be helpful

alanback: I didnt either. As a matter of fact, I switched to ru, and then xx to see what it would do and it went back to English. I agree with pauloaguia this it is most likely only seen by Translators. Just as there are a few things that I can see as a Global that others cannot.

alanback: Perhaps it works only for translators... It really isn't important for anyone else, anyway...

Eriisa:  I don't see any difference when I replace en with xx.

pauloaguia: LOL now I'm just curious too.

Is it the /en that you replace with /xx? Sounds like a really nice tool for the Translators.

added: oh, geeze, you did say that. Sorry! I read too fast sometimes.

pauloaguia:  I don't feel that I know any more than before I asked ... it's ok, I was just curious.

alanback: It's a tool for translator to know the key for the texts they need to translate. You can emulate it by replacing the language part in the page URL (pt, en or whatever language) with xx

pauloaguia:  What is key mode?

basplund: When you click "Key Mode" your default language is set to xx just like when you click on a flag. Since that setting is stored on the server, the next time you login you'll be in KeyMode.
The sure way to get out of it is by clicking on a flag, to change your default language again.

Because of that, whenever I need to go to key mode, I simply type in the xx at the address bar, so it doesn't get saved, since in Simple Mode the flags are invisible.

well, suddenly it's working again as it should! Computers are certainly strange creatures!!! 

basplund: no

Does anybody else have the same problem?  
Every time I'm logging into the site it switches to key mode, and I have to change the xx to se or en, or whatever language code.  It's also independent of which browser I'm using.
I've cleared the cash and all too.

Does anyone have a clue to what's wrong !?

coan.net: that makes sense, thanks

nodnarbo: It might have to do with 3 of the games have under 4 moves - so may not "count" towards the rating - even though you have a rating. So probable just one of the "loop holes" in the coding. Probable will take a few more games before the graph shows up.