Savings account hacked via PayPal

[onthedownlow]

I had an order for five Apple TVs through Groupon a few weeks back. I did not order it, so when I saw the email confirmation, I thought it was just typical spam/phishing, but when I looked at it, it had my home address as the delivery and a few other pieces of info to be a coincidence (i.e. last four of CC).

I logged into Groupon, and sure enough there was an outstanding order for these; however, since I hadn't used Groupon in so long, the CC (debit card, actually) that I had on file had been expired for a year or two.

I was able to just cancel the order and of course changed my password.

Odd thing was, it was more of a prank, I suppose since the shipping address was my own. I would have been very surprised to come home and find that sitting on my porch, unless that was part of the plan to monitor it and take it from my porch come delivery time. Hmmm...

[chopper]

I have a credit union account with $40 in it. I never use that bank for anything.

This is the account I have linked to for Paypal.

[space-time]

chopper wrote:
I have a credit union account with $40 in it. I never use that bank for anything.

This is the account I have linked to for Paypal.

do you have overdraft?

[DP]

LastPass was hacked a few months ago.

[Black]

space-time wrote:
[quote=chopper]
I have a credit union account with $40 in it. I never use that bank for anything.

This is the account I have linked to for Paypal.

do you have overdraft? I have my Paypal linked to an account that I keep $500 in. If it overdrafts it will draw from a different account but I would get several kinds of instant notifications if that happened, including a text.

[Michael]

onthedownlow wrote:
I had an order for five Apple TVs through Groupon a few weeks back.

Odd thing was, it was more of a prank, I suppose since the shipping address was my own. I would have been very surprised to come home and find that sitting on my porch, unless that was part of the plan to monitor it and take it from my porch come delivery time. Hmmm...

I read about exactly this type of theft a couple of years ago. People ordering things using the real address of somebody they got credit card information from and then hanging around to take the package off the porch after it was delivered.

[Will Collier]

My PayPal account was hacked by somebody in India a few years back, stole a few hundred bucks. I got it all back.

A bank account ATM was accessed a few years later in a town in Mexico I've never set foot in. Got all that back, too.

I've lost count of all the times my credit cards have been used illegally by somebody else; the first time was on New Year's Eve of 1998 (got a call that morning asking if I'd actually tried to buy four Sony Vaio laptops in Orlando the night before. "Uh... no...").

Unfortunately, this is the new normal.

[Will Collier]

chopper wrote:
I have a credit union account with $40 in it. I never use that bank for anything.

This is the account I have linked to for Paypal.

Yep, I do the same thing. Only a few dollars in an old account, just enough to keep it open.

[August West]

I created an online account at Ally Bank that is only used for paypal payments. Stays at about 2 dollars otherwise.