Victim of identity theft already?

[JeffyZ33 10+ year member]

Well I went to the bank today and cashed my check. The usual teller, nice lady that knows me pretty good. After a minute of her walking around asking people to look at the screen and me wondering what is taking so long, she says ''Jeff you need to come inside''

So I go inside and talk to a lady and it turns out, Paypal debited ~$1000 from my bank account leaving my negative (I'm 17 and just bought a new car //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif). She got the transaction stopped, but now I'm left wondering.

I log into my paypal and look at the ''recent activity'', nothing but the money that was being sent to my bank from me selling stuff. Go to the history, and there it is.

750 EUR to : Tran Tracy --- transmissio5223125@yahoo.com

Now this is weird. My last transaction before that was ordering a transmission rebuild kit.

WTF is going on here? Evidently someone got my paypal password, which I am VERY secretive about, keep my computer clean, always log out, etc. The same BS has happened to my friend before, except he had evidently started a business and a website.

I've gone looking through my log on Paypal and can't find anything else. I've never noticed to be missing any money or seen anything funny on bank statements.

What can I expect now? What should I do? I already changed my paypal password. Do I need to go as far as getting a new bank account, paypal account, and debit card? Do you guys think this was a 1-time-only kind of thing to see if it would work or am I going to be seeing more of this BS?

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[Lckmyblls 10+ year member]

sounds like spyware...

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

This just happened to my brother in law last week.... I'm wondering if eBay got compromised recently???

 

[JeffyZ33 10+ year member]

Don't really see the need to edit out the email for 2 reasons:

1: Looks like a generated email that is used once

2: If he's ****ing with me/paypal/others, let it be known

But if it does need edited, let me know.

I run Ad-Aware SE at LEAST weekly, usually every night. Any better program to run?

Dominator: I havent used ebay for months

 

[enzowho 10+ year member]

Something like this happened to me last year. It was a weird situation, somebody got my debit card number without taking my card??? I got like 500 bucks charged 3 or 4 times to the freakin' Dominican Republic in the matter of 2 hours. Fortunately I caught it and got the money back...Anyways, heres what I was told to do:

1: Change all my passwords to something completely random (ie D*!_fi&Dp)

2: Don't save the passwords to your computer or browswer

3: Don't allow people to make carbon copies of your card (doesn't happen very often, but sometimes that gas station will try)

4: Close out the involved cards and get new ones issued

5: Watch your account on a daily basis for 1-2 months

In your case, you might want to close your account and open a new one. I don't know how much access PayPal gives peeps regarding number and stuff, but I wouldn't want somebody with my account number. Also, did you accidentally log into a fake website via a fraudulently email?

 

[60ndown 10+ year member]

Something like this happened to me last year. It was a weird situation, somebody got my debit card number without taking my card??? I got like 500 bucks charged 3 or 4 times to the freakin' Dominican Republic in the matter of 2 hours. Fortunately I caught it and got the money back...Anyways, heres what I was told to do:
1: Change all my passwords to something completely random (ie D*!_fi&Dp)

2: Don't save the passwords to your computer or browswer

3: Don't allow people to make carbon copies of your card (doesn't happen very often, but sometimes that gas station will try)

4: Close out the involved cards and get new ones issued

5: Watch your account on a daily basis for 1-2 months

In your case, you might want to close your account and open a new one. I don't know how much access PayPal gives peeps regarding number and stuff, but I wouldn't want somebody with my account number. Also, did you accidentally log into a fake website via a fraudulently email?

^ seems like good advice, better safe than sorry, id also consider buying a few flowers for the teller?

 

[davesexplorer 10+ year member]

Well I went to the bank today and cashed my check. The usual teller, nice lady that knows me pretty good. After a minute of her walking around asking people to look at the screen and me wondering what is taking so long, she says ''Jeff you need to come inside''
So I go inside and talk to a lady and it turns out, Paypal debited ~$1000 from my bank account leaving my negative (I'm 17 and just bought a new car //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif). She got the transaction stopped, but now I'm left wondering.

I log into my paypal and look at the ''recent activity'', nothing but the money that was being sent to my bank from me selling stuff. Go to the history, and there it is.

750 EUR to : Tran Tracy --- transmissio5223125@yahoo.com

Now this is weird. My last transaction before that was ordering a transmission rebuild kit.

WTF is going on here? Evidently someone got my paypal password, which I am VERY secretive about, keep my computer clean, always log out, etc. The same BS has happened to my friend before, except he had evidently started a business and a website.

I've gone looking through my log on Paypal and can't find anything else. I've never noticed to be missing any money or seen anything funny on bank statements.

What can I expect now? What should I do? I already changed my paypal password. Do I need to go as far as getting a new bank account, paypal account, and debit card? Do you guys think this was a 1-time-only kind of thing to see if it would work or am I going to be seeing more of this BS?

You didn't buy into a fake second chance offer did ya?

 

[JeffyZ33 10+ year member]

Nope never fell for those emails, I get them all the time. Foward em to paypal and delete.

I try to keep everything ''smart'' on this computer. If I'm getting some killer spyware, maybe I'll reformat. I need to set up my Raid 0 anyways //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/yumyum.gif.0556df42231b304b9c995aefd13928a8.gif

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

^ seems like good advice, better safe than sorry, id also consider buying a few flowers for the teller?

I agree.