Re: Refund Note for LCA2021

Thanks everyone for the useful explanations here - we've all been there!

A huge thanks to all our volunteers for all the hidden, and thankless 
work that's done behind the scenes to keep LA running. It's only when 
glitches like this happen that we realise there's a human in the loop.

Best wishes,

Kathy

On 8/7/21 8:21 pm, Russell Stuart via linux-aus wrote:
> On 8/7/21 7:59 pm, Damon Permezel via linux-aus wrote:
>> I got one also, and sent back a 'wtf'?' query. As far as I know, I 
>> paid.  Perhaps someone scammed a lot of $$ and needs there to be a 
>> lot of unpaid invoices to make things balance?
>
> No, it wasn't a scammer.  It was just a fat fingered admin (that would
> be me) trying to flat file the site and get a copy of all invoices
> issued for tax purposes.  Turns out if you crawl it with the right
> credentials, issuing a GET to a link is enough to trigger a refund, and
> since it was a very capable web crawler it found every damned refund 
> link.
>
> Apologies for the noise.  And apologies to all who thought this LA
> treasurer was giving them a EOFY bonus.  (No chance.)
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