A quick story on PayPal....
I was on a road trip - and received several (like 8 or so) notices from PayPal on my iPhone. Since they were sent to my iPhone - I ignored them. Figuring it was just sales crap.
When I finally got to a hotel with wifi - I opened my laptop email and the PayPal emails numbers about 2000! Upon opening the first email - expecting junk mail - it notifies me that they've transfered $20 from my checking account to some overseas dump... you can figure out the rest of the emails where the same - one about every 30 seconds... until my checking account (40K +) was EMPTY.
I called PayPal - and some dippy woman tells me she'll send me papers to "file" -- I said - Lady -- do you see how many transactions we're talking about - and I'm not filling ANY PAPERWORK AT ALL -- She starts counting "one - two - three...." At this point I said -- sweetheart - we're talking $20 per transaction - forty three thousand dollars worth! I'd now like to talk to your supervisor.... I get transferred - explain the same story - the new IDIOT does the same counting... at which time I say - Please transfer me to your supervisor! I get some executive security guy this time - explain the story - and I tell this guy... "my bank opens in 30 minutes.... I have a private banking relationship... they WILL reverse all of these transactions... all I have to do is ask... so YOU can fix it right now - or they will. End of story". He says - Okay -- it's obvious that this is fraud - and we'll fix it within the hour. He did what he said - and all was good.
I did ask him how this could happen - and he wouldn't tell me - except to say it was obvious someone had "hacked" my PayPal account... not my computer... and I asked him - "wouldn't you have some fraud alert when you see a zillion transactions like this.... and he said... no but looks like maybe we should..." DOH!!
Hope you get it all fixed! Mine was actually quite easy - but I carried a fairly big "stick" and got to someone that understood that "threat"....
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