icecream Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 some ass hat did 4 separate pay pal charges on my account ($600+ all together) i'm finished with pay pal. Now us bank is another story i've been transferred over 10 times with in the past 20 minutes. so i guess my question is has anyone actually lost any money through pay pal because of this shit ? on top of that i have to return a $600 e-drum kit that doesn't work what a shit day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hudsoncomplex Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Never had anything through Pay Pal before, but my wife and I had out bank accounts hacked and drained of nearly $7k. It was the money we had gotten as wedding gifts, and we found out on our honeymoon, on her birthday. We ended up getting it all back a few weeks later, it sucked at the time though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philviral Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 My buddy caught somebody trying to scam his Paypal account. He logged in one day and noticed that the balance was really high, and he never carries a balance. So he changed his password and filed a hack complaint with Paypal, and somehow ended up keeping the money added by the hacker!! This was a couple years ago and I don't remember the details exactly but it was hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justaminrthreat Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I never keep a balance in Paypal, but once I signed in and saw some weird charge or transfer of around $12 that I didn't recognize and had a weird description, so I canceled it and changed my password. Never really knew what it was, but the money didn't come out of my account in the end. I guess I should have looked into that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user456 Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I had something like this happen to my Paypal. I called them immediately they stopped the charges, filed reports to get the money back and everything was fixed and my money was back in about a weeks time. I was pleased with the way Paypal handle mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circuit bored records Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 wow, I've never heard/read anything about stuff like this happening. Is it safe to assume the hackers somehow got the users password and that's how they were able to get the $$$ out? I guess it's more important to change your password regularly on those sites than I thought before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Yeah, paypal accounts get hacked quite often. It is such a largely used service, that there are tons of phishing attempts, and hacks on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyleevanswastaken Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 My buddy caught somebody trying to scam his Paypal account. He logged in one day and noticed that the balance was really high, and he never carries a balance. So he changed his password and filed a hack complaint with Paypal, and somehow ended up keeping the money added by the hacker!!This was a couple years ago and I don't remember the details exactly but it was hilarious. "That sounds like one of them good problems" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icecream Posted May 15, 2012 Author Share Posted May 15, 2012 i ended up getting the charges reversed with in the same day ! also note hudson's story well, raped mine I couldn't fathom having that happen to me. I was telling someone this story yesterday at work and he informed me that the insurance co that we get through work sent him a letter one day. We are sorry to inform you that we've sold your info including address,social,ect to various companies. to show our apology we will be giving you 2 years free of fraud monitoring. WTF is that ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philviral Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 ...insurance co...We are sorry to inform you that we've sold your info including address,social,ect That is fucked. Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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