Ron Jefferson
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I'm currently on vacation in the U.S. and luckily have a laptop with Internet access. I checked my email on Tuesday morning and found that I had made 5 Paypal transactions over night adding up to $2000.00. to a guy with a name I can't even pronounce. One email said I tried to add a CC to my account and changed some of my security access.
I immediately got on the phone with Paypal and confirmed my account had been hacked. PP's security picked up on the unusual activity and locked my account. However, there is nothing they can do to stop the payments from happening. I've spent the last two days on the phone closing out credit cards and placing stop payments on my account, transferring funds to cover the extra withdrawls etc. Not having a Roaming plan is really going to suck as the fee from U.S. to Canada is $1.45 per minute.
The bank can put a stop payment on my account but the funds are actually held and deposited back in two days later. Transfers, stop payments and phone charges will all cost money out of my own pocket. So I have to ask myself, what the hell is this world coming to? Some slimey "Mohamad" can sit in his ghetto little basement apartment in front of a computer and scam money from innocent people.
Sorry, just venting!
ps. The ironic part is that PP sends this guy an email to see if he can verify the purchases I made from him. Lol Back to fishing...
Ron
I immediately got on the phone with Paypal and confirmed my account had been hacked. PP's security picked up on the unusual activity and locked my account. However, there is nothing they can do to stop the payments from happening. I've spent the last two days on the phone closing out credit cards and placing stop payments on my account, transferring funds to cover the extra withdrawls etc. Not having a Roaming plan is really going to suck as the fee from U.S. to Canada is $1.45 per minute.
The bank can put a stop payment on my account but the funds are actually held and deposited back in two days later. Transfers, stop payments and phone charges will all cost money out of my own pocket. So I have to ask myself, what the hell is this world coming to? Some slimey "Mohamad" can sit in his ghetto little basement apartment in front of a computer and scam money from innocent people.
Sorry, just venting!
ps. The ironic part is that PP sends this guy an email to see if he can verify the purchases I made from him. Lol Back to fishing...
Ron
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