Christian Mayne

Christian Mayne

Facebook Phone Number

Facebook provide a phone number on their Paypal invoices: +353 06505434800. This number is invalid. Facebook really don't want you getting through to a human.

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So - I have a separate Facebook account that I set up as an emergency failsafe. I know this is against the Facebook Ts&Cs, but really, when the stakes are so high, the penalties so arbitrary and the review process so opaque it would be unwise not to at least attempt some back door method of decoupling your business from Facebook if you need to. The problem is, if Facebook detects this (which they will) they will block that account too. So far it remains active though I suspect it's a ...

Paypal appeal won

I work all day everyday on the internet and have done on one way or another since the late 90s. I deal with Social Media, Payment Gateways, Account integrations, website builds etc. etc. I know my way around this space pretty well. But even I'm finding the fallout of my Facebook hack difficult to navigate. Having just lost my paypal appeal (which I hadn't disputed), I've now received two emails telling me the case has been closed in my favour   This is good news of course, ...

Paypal appeal denied

As suspected and written about here, the Paypal case against Facebook for taking payment in a hacked facebook account has been denied. Although expected, this would seem inconsistent behaviour by Paypal. The grounds would appear to be that a legitimate agreement between myself and Facebook was used to take the payment. However my agreement with Facebook is for a maximum daily amount that has been exceeded by 20x (not 16x as previously thought) and the account was clearly being ...
Facebook Account Hacked

Facebook Account Hacked

I'm quite cyber-security aware. I have a Computer Science degree and run a web development agency. I manage hundreds of websites for clients. All of my logins are unique 20 character logins generated using the Keeper password manager. I have 2FA activated on all significant accounts. I don't share passwords. I know what a phishing email looks like and receive emails almost daily from clients asking "is this email a scam?". I'm generally quite careful in this area. Even so, despite these ...
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