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Someone raided my PayPal account for $400. Paypal was suspicious so they flagged the transaction but NOT before charging my credit card. I contacted the seller and they have agreed to refund the charges so it will get resolved. Meanwhile I have to wonder who the heck got into my PayPal account and charged $400 against a social networking sites internal accounts.
This may take 3 weeks or more to finally resolve. It's left me kind of sick at my stomach, even though Paypal and the seller are being very nice about it. Somebody tried to rip me off and that is very upsetting. I've only ever had this happen once before back during the days of phone slamming.
Hugs to all,
Erin
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Shocked....
I'm glad to hear the situation between PayPal and the seller will be resolved. However,I'd be very interested to hear how it was done as I imagine more than a few others here with PayPal accounts would also be interested.
PB
I had a similar problem.
I had a similar problem. However this was corporate and went through my companies bank account. I do not have paypal nor do I accept paypal. There were 2 transactions one for $7500 and one for $15000. They were flagged and my bank credited my account immediately. However the disconcerting thing is that no one can tell me how they got access to my account. Look for 2 small credits (under $1 each). Paypal uses this to verify your account. You need to log those into paypals computer to authorize the account before they will debit from it. All I can say is everyone needs to police all of their accounts carefully and report fraud immediately. The crooks work very hard at not working. Protect yourself, no one will do it for you.
My truck was burgled once
and I lost about $1500 in refrigeration and carpentry tools. At the time I made my living doing building maintenance. Someone had threatened my livelihood so they could buy drugs or alcohol.
I've never gotten over the feeling of being violated. I remember at the time wanting to lash out at something, anything, but there was way of targeting my anger. Another part of me just wanted to sit and sob about it. So I understand how you must feel.
I hope things get resolved quickly, and you are able to determine the steps to take to prevent it from happening again.
Hug,
Carla Ann
Paypal raiding
About a year ago, someone attempted to raid my Paypal account for $3000 and send it to a bank in Jakarta. I was about 15 minutes away from going on Christmas vacation last year and decided to check my email one last time. I had two emails, one from Paypal, who thought it was a suspicious transfer and asked if I wanted to challenge it, and one was a simultaneous standard email notification that 3 grand had been transferred. The timing of it, when everyone leaves to go on vacation or visit family, was clever. I strongly suspect a phishing operation because my anti-virus was up-to-date and I hadn't used Paypal for over a year until just two weeks before, when I (very suspiciously) had some trouble using Paypal to make a donation. In any case, Paypal returned my money after I challenged it, but if I hadn't caught it and had been on vacation for more than five days -- I have a the bank Paypal version which has an automatic five day transfer delay -- it would have been in some despicable and unreachable thief's pocket. Needless to say, I didn't have as much fun that Christmas worrying about it.
This online theft is ridiculous. What gets me, Paypal was initially suspicious of the transfer because that Jakarta account had previously been flagged for fraud by another Paypal user six months earlier, so why in Hades was that scam still operating? There are some very corrupt governments permitting this, and from the lack of news, they don't seem to be catching anybody. Beware, and check your accounts regularly.
/rant
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi
PayPal Security
Change your password often and make them very difficult to remember or guess. I like selected letters from poems I remember, like "Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Forward, the Light Brigade!" There's thirteen first or last or second letters there, nicely distributed between upper and lower case, one of them can be turned into a number very easily, and a few punctuation marks tossed in for seasoning.
Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Security
One of the jobs I did in the Army was being a clerk for the cryptanalysts. I read all their books, too. I'm not sure how these guys got a hook on this but I don't think it was from guessing my password. They may have captured it some way, but they didn't guess it.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Keylogging???
If they didn't guess it... did someone slip a keylogger onto your system?
Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue
If the password was secure...
...the next most common breach is by a trusted employee. It's at least theoretically possible to spoof the payment sequence, which is supposed to take you directly to the PayPal site, so that's one possibility. I had the same thing happen with an ordinary credit card, although the issuing bank called me straight away. Credit cards are even easier than PayPal, because there are intermediate records which pass though many hands, the owners of those hands usually being paid minimum wage, or not far from it.
Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style