I have a client who I am having difficulty getting Paypal to accept credit card payments on their website. When a customer goes to pay, it says that the payees bank account has declined the payment, however when the customer phones the bank they say that the request hasn’t been made to them and it’s not been declined. We have been able to replicate this behavior as a customer.
They are able to accept Paypal bank transfers however.
I did change to Stripe and initially this worked for a couple of days, but then Stripe removed it as it was classified as a gambling site.
Does anyone have any recommendations of payment facility to use on a “gambling” site? or any experience of the described issue with Paypal?
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]]>This includes slot machines, betting on sports etc, gambling games etc.
I have tried Joomla and there is nothing except profit sharing applications which are not acceptable so please don’t suggest any profit sharing apps.
]]>Specifically I’ve been tasked with creating a site where people bet agains this celebrity’s sports picks. Not for money, just fun, and it needs to have the social aspect to it that they log in, they tally their results and then season stats on how the celeb is doing.
The plugins I’m finding of course don’t have support to ask and I can’t tell if this “one against all” thing is going to be able to work in there. If anyone has any experience with a gambling site that would be great.
]]>I am running WordPress 3.7.1 and the following plugins:
– Admin Menu Editor Pro v1.91
– Advanced Custom Fields v4.3.0
– Advanced Custom Fields – Taxonomy Field add-on v1.4
– Advanced Custom Fields: Gallery Field v1.1.0
– Advanced Custom Fields: Options Page v1.1.0
– Advanced Custom Fields: Repeater Field v1.1.0
– AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild v1.09
– Akismet v2.5.9
– Backup Scheduler v1.4.4
– Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order v1.3.4
– Codepress Admin Columns v2.0.2
– Form Manager v1.6.41
– Redirection v2.3.4
– Relevanssi v3.1.9
– Reveal IDs v1.4.5
– Rewrite Rules Inspector v1.2.1
– Simple Page Ordering v2.1.2
So, onto the actual problem..
The site works great, no issues on the site itself. I am using “Post Name” as the Permalinks Common Settings so all URLs on the site are https://domain.com/page-name/
When I search for the website name in Google, the sitelinks show a ton of links to a gambling site. [redacted]
The URL structure for all of the links that show up in Google look like this:
https://www.domain.com/?p=XX (where XX is a number from 1 to 296)
If you click on any link from Google it takes me to a page with a FRAMESET that points to:
http:[redacted]
This is a link to the Grand Parker Casino.
I could also manually type any URL https://www.domain.com/?p=XX (where XX is a number from 1 to 296) and I get the same end result.
The links ONLY show up in Google, they don’t appear anywhere on my site (that I found).
The solution
That’s right, I fixed the problem, but when I was looking online for a solution, none were found so I figured I’d share my experience in case anyone has the same issue.
So.. I searched high and low, the theme, plugins, uploads, everywhere.
I found:
– A malicious php file called “b377f.php” in the uploads directory. I noticed the last modified date for /wp-content/uploads/2013/02 was September, not February, so I checked and found the newly uploaded file. It was a phishing file that provided any WordPress passwords among other things. I deleted this.
– A malicious line in the wp-config.php file:
[Code moderated. Please do not post hack code blocks in the forums. Please use the pastebin]
It’s a HEX encoded line that was further encoded using Base64. I used programming to decode it and it pointed to a directory that had been created deep in some old directories/files on my server. This would be a unique directory on your server, but mine was called “…../donaven/cache/”
In that directory there was about 30 hidden files with alphanumeric character names like:
.%828E%0013%B8F3%BC1B%B22B%4F57
I deleted them, the directory, and the malicious line of code from wp-config.php.
Removing this instantly stopped the redirects from happening in Google. I’m hoping two things will now happen:
1) Google will remove the broken links, cause they no longer work
2) The hole that caused the issue has been fixed
Again, I don’t know how this was caused, but I do know that the redirects are no longer happening. I’ll post here if there are any other updates.
If you are experiencing this yourself, good luck!
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