Friday, May 12, 2006

PayPal Hacked!

I had quite the experience tonight. I was opening my mail, and was skimming my bank statement. To my surprise, I found a transfer on April 12th to PayPal for $1,200! I knew that couldn't be right, so I logged into PayPal and checked the history. Sure enough, on April 12th, I had $1,200 pulled from my account, converted to British Pounds, then sent to an Ashley Roberts! I checked the details on the transfer to Ms. Roberts and found it was for an ebay listing. I clicked through on the ebay listing and discovered that I had purchased an Acer Ferarri laptop in the UK! However, I wasn't even the high bidder. So, I called PayPal and they assured me that I would get my money back and I should definitely change my password. The wierd thing is that it's pretty cryptic! It's random letters with a number thrown in. Also, they didn't change my password or buy anything else. Very, very odd. It can certainly happen to anyone!

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