Ha, this is awesome. I'm glad that the author got his money back. But use this as a reminder, whether you're doing nefarious activities or not, you can probably be found online with a few hours of research unless you're being incredibly careful.
A better lesson, think what your mother will say/feel about the thing your about to do (with the exception if you are not close to your family)
Yes, true, although I hope most people already have internalized that they shouldn't commit fraud whether or not their mother would approve
This is a good test though. I forgot where I read it from but there was this saying if your doing something you would be ashamed to tell your freidns or family about than you probably shouldn't be doing it
You might have heard it when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was brushing off concerns about online privacy.
Unless your mother is Ma Barker ;)
If you share usernames, that is. I could very well make up a unique username like "Nikatoa" that I never even thought of before, and there's no way you could link that to any other account of mine - short of database leaks containing my email or linking/commenting from one account to another.