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| Thread ID: 129714 | 2013-03-07 08:41:00 | PayPal account hacked. Grrrrr | John H (8) | PC World Chat |
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| 1331818 | 2013-03-12 03:39:00 | It is a bit different when the credit card and billing address is NZ, the dealer is in the USA, and the shipping address is Tunisia, TEG! | John H (8) | ||
| 1331819 | 2013-03-12 04:20:00 | I have had a Paypal account with some cash into it for 4 or 5 years no problems so far. But some bast...s took a few hundred dolalrs from my Visa credit card over a few months when I was not looking. They were $24 every month and $39 every month cleverly disguised. The bank gave me some if it back but some was too old. Don't forget that any time you give your credit card number to a company their staff member may be dishonest and pass it on to some scumbag ! Debit cards are becoming more popular amongst the proletariat, you also can't get into debt with them. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1331820 | 2013-03-12 06:54:00 | As do I, I often get stuff sent to work and have even had things delivered to my family in England, totally different to my billing adress | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1331821 | 2013-03-13 01:23:00 | That is good info John. I have Paypal but again I use the dud debit card with no money in until I transfer funds before transactions. That's what I do too. I have a separate account at a different bank with a Visa Debt card attached. I only put money in when I want to purchase something. No overdraft so any dodgy transactions will simply be declined. Yeah it adds a delay but it's secure. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1331822 | 2013-03-13 22:46:00 | Thanks to my bank the money that went missing was redeposited into my bank account yesterday haven't heard a peep from PP except a request to fill out a performance survey type thing. I notice that the investigation by PP is still active awaiting response from seller The suspect has made 14 purchases between 6 march up until 12 march all cameras and watches and a pair of sunglasses with no activity before that it has to be suspicious | ripper (17028) | ||
| 1331823 | 2013-04-13 12:32:00 | Hi John H. I registered on this site just to respond to your posting. I'm South African BTW. Almost exactly the same thing happened to me. Someone in Tunisia bought about $700 worth of goods from two USA shops using my PayPal account. I got warnings in my email that 2 possible unauthorized transactions were made on my PayPal account and I must login as soon as possible to dispute them if they weren't mine. I knew it wasn't fake as about the same time my bank SMSed me the same transactions. I logged in and was prompted to change my password and security questions and saw them on my PayPal login. I disputed them immediately and stopped my card tied to the account. There was even still an alternate shipping address for a Tunisian address in my account !! Within hours I got email saying PayPal had found in my favour the first one was refunded and by the next day the other one was also. I received the money a couple of days later. This could have gone a lot worse. PayPal to their credit was VERY good in dealing with this. PayPal should make all their users change their passwords immediately as who knows how many passwords are compromised and make their passwords expire say every 90 days. I suggested to my bank they have a separate account where you have to transfer money into prior to making internet transactions with its own master/visa card. If banks do this these kind of transactions will almost never happen. Some banks even allow you to buy prepaid master/visa cards. That's an even better idea in my eyes. |
jss123 (17029) | ||
| 1331824 | 2013-04-14 01:37:00 | Hi jss123 Sorry to hear you have had the same experience. It sounds as though both your bank and PP were on to it much quicker than in my case. My bank were only aware of the issue when I called them. And PP only sent an email saying they were sorry I had been unable to access my account (this was for transactions in addition to the two "successful" ones) and offering advice on how to sort out the problem... It was only because I realised I had not used PP that I started to investigate and filed the two disputes. I think you have good ideas on how to avoid this problem. I have not registered my new Credit Card with PP - I won't do that again! However, some others here suggest the use of Debit Cards for transactions like this. Your suggestion works with Debit Cards, because you need to transfer money to the DC account to enable the transaction to go through, unlike a CC where your average thief can just run up transactions up to the level of your credit. Glad to hear you got things sorted and got your money back. |
John H (8) | ||
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