Someone At WPDesigner Wants Your Money

The story regarding WPDesigner.com just keeps getting better, or worst. I’m receiving reports from multiple individuals letting me know that they have received a paypal notice informing them to renew their 5$ subscription to the theme club Small Potato once operated. On top of that, some folks are even receiving late payment notices. Couple this latest development with what has taken place on the WPDesigner site the other day, it seems like something malicious is going on. After all of this time, someone who is keeping the lights on over their is making attempts at getting your money

I do remember Small Potato refunding everyone who was a member of the theme club after discovering that the new owner didn’t live up to his promise to keep the club going. I’m not sure what is going on but I’ll provide updates as I find out about them.

If you are receiving these paypal notices, DO NOT pay them. Simply ignore them.

Category: News

Tags: payments, paypal, themeclub, wpdesigner

3 responses to “Someone At WPDesigner Wants Your Money”

Jessie says:

February 28, 2009 at 2:46 PM

I to have been getting them. I figure that when the club was set up, they were using some kind of auto billing system. And that the software is still running on the webserver.

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Christina Warren says:

March 1, 2009 at 4:07 PM

Yeah, this happened to me before the expiration date of my sub in February or whatever. I got a reminder (and this was after I got my refund) and made sure I had deleted and unenrolled in the subscription in PayPal to make sure nothing would get drained out of my account. Nothing is there that ties me to the system other than my e-mail in a database, but it was still something I definitely checked out.

Like you said, DO NOT pay. Ignore, make sure it is deactivated and deleted from your PayPal account’s subscription area and don’t visit any part of the site.

This was part of my initial fear after the site was taken over — that it was just a ploy to try to get PayPal subs funds or to data mine the e-mail addresses of people who signed up for the club. The first option doesn’t look like it was a technical feasibility, but the second option is still probable — all someone would need to do would be to dump the table that contains the subscriber e-mails in whatever database the auto-bill system stored, and that would be that.

That’s kind of shady — and definitely puts people who paid $5 (which is nothing, I realize — and I said that then and still stand by that — I’ve wasted more on stuff just as useless) in good faith for a theme club in a position where their e-mail and PayPal IDs are given over to a third party. That’s not cool, and I don’t care if the themes club was part of the original sale, more should have been done to either disable the payment autobill system or encrypt the addresses and other info.

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Jeffro says:

March 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM

@Jessie – Yeah, sounds like a Paypal auto renew reminder thing they have setup. That should have been turned off when the refunds were dished out.

@Christina Warren – Valid points and good criticism. Just seems more and more like someone over their has a sort of malicious intent.

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