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Somehow someone used my paypal account this weekend without my knowledge. Strange thing is I haven't logged into my paypal for about a year. I have used paypal to do credit card transactions in a couple places (safe places) but didn't log in at the time...

So now I get to play around with the people at paypal to get my money back.

I still don't know how someone would have gotten into my account. Unless they guessed my info somehow. I honestly haven't typed the login info into a computer in quite some time.

I just received an email from paypal completely in French (I don't speak french or visit any french websites) saying something about a 40 dollar charge, and they were locking my account for suspicious activity.

Edited, Jan 16th 2011 8:47pm by TirithRR

Foward me if you want and I'll give you the gist of it.

Babelfish gave me the gist of it. Plus once I logged into paypal I got the same message in English. Who ever used my account must have done so from a French or Canadian website.

I'll spend some time at the bank tomorrow, making sure I can do a charge back if Paypal decides not to give me my money back. I'll find a way to get the money back.



It is a real email. The money was taken from my bank account on the same day. I noticed the bank account charge first, then my email.

The email was only french, I assume, because who ever used it was using a french interface. I got the same emails in English once I logged in and started a dispute.

I used paypal's dispute because my bank isn't available until Monday, I tried calling my bank first, but they were closed. Every password and questions have been changed on all my accounts dealing with email and paypal.


If I remember correctly, the last place I used Paypal was purchasing Minecraft. Before that was Allakhazam Premium. (Not accusing anyone). Both times I didn't log in, just used them to pay by credit card. Strange how this happened.

Edited, Jan 16th 2011 8:59pm by TirithRR

After about 3 years of disuse, I got an email from paypal informing me that they were cancelling my account. They siad that the reason for this was that old ignored/forgotten accounts were the ones most frequently targeted by hackers. Makes sense I guess...its probably harder for someone to notice that their inactive account has been compromised quickly.

I finally got to talk to the bank today, and filled out the papers there for an unauthorized use of my account. And called Paypal, and after dealing with a stupid automated voice recognition system I finally talked with a real person and unlocked my account, proceeded to remove all information from my paypal account so it wouldn't be able to happen again.

Now I wonder what will happen when my bank quickly reverses the charge and paypal still sits waiting for response from the other party...