ksbman
Flashaholic*
Monday I received a call from my CC Company about some fraudulent activity. About $500 had been charged, and it wasn't by me. CapitalOne closed that account and is sending me another card.
Today I noticed on my bank account that $500 had been withdrawn yesterday and sent to my PayPal Personal account. I didn't authorize that. Tomorrow's payday and I didn't even have $20 in that account.
I tried to logon to my PP account but the password had been changed. I contacted PP right away.
They said that there has been about 15 transactions today to 3 different e-mail addresses, none of which are mine. He spent 20 minutes reversing those transactions. I have an 'Unauthorized Use of My PayPal Account' form to fill out and was told it would be a couple of weeks before everything would be straightened out and I could use that account again.
I also have to go to my bank today to fill out some forms to get that money back.
Very scary stuff! I do everything right about security except all my various accounts had the same password. That cherry has been popped!
Now all my accounts have passwords that are letters, numbers, characters, and caps. No more words where numbers replace letters that they look like, i.e. o = 0 or i = 1.
So, I won't have a Personal PP account for a few weeks, in case anyone is thinking of having something forwarded and wants to pay that way.
Today I noticed on my bank account that $500 had been withdrawn yesterday and sent to my PayPal Personal account. I didn't authorize that. Tomorrow's payday and I didn't even have $20 in that account.
I tried to logon to my PP account but the password had been changed. I contacted PP right away.
They said that there has been about 15 transactions today to 3 different e-mail addresses, none of which are mine. He spent 20 minutes reversing those transactions. I have an 'Unauthorized Use of My PayPal Account' form to fill out and was told it would be a couple of weeks before everything would be straightened out and I could use that account again.
I also have to go to my bank today to fill out some forms to get that money back.
Very scary stuff! I do everything right about security except all my various accounts had the same password. That cherry has been popped!
Now all my accounts have passwords that are letters, numbers, characters, and caps. No more words where numbers replace letters that they look like, i.e. o = 0 or i = 1.
So, I won't have a Personal PP account for a few weeks, in case anyone is thinking of having something forwarded and wants to pay that way.