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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: FQGamer on April 25, 2009, 06:09:13 pm
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so i get on my email today to a receipt from a company called beatport on my paypal. I have never even heard of this company but apparently its an online music store for "club" music, which I would never shell out good money for. I know that you can easiliy get ripped off by clicking on the fake paypal site links in fraudulent emails but i haven't gotten one of the those in a long time, and i certainly did not follow that link knowing it was fraudulent. you could tell when the whole message was one giant clickable link. D-errrr. anyways, this really pissed me off. I already sent a complaint to paypal and to the company that received my money, but i guess their office is closed saturdays. But yeah i got ripped off 98.00 bucks, for shitty club music, like insult to injury. How many people here have dealt with a sort of identity theft before. I never use my paypal account accept for ebay or to send money to my dad for bills. WTF?
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Better cancel your paypal account, bud.
Otherwise that identity fraud might run rampant.
But seriously, if shit you haven't ordered is showing up on your paypal, report it to them and call your bank or credit card or whatever you have hooked up to that shit and tell them to deny all transfers or something until you have it sorted out.
k I need to read more.
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hey same thing happened to me. i never used the account for anything really except itunes and one day i had some $30 charge on there from some random company. i sent a complaint and got my $30 back. after that i switched emails and passwords, cut off my debit and bank account, and had paypal send me a check for $30 in the mail. not too long after this my old email that i had used for paypal b4 was also somehow hacked and so i just let that go. good luck, i hope everything turns out right, i would cut everything off as quick as you can though
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I don't even use paypal to pay bills. I don't put in my account info either. Just use it when I'm buying shit online or something that requires it.
Don't feel comfortable having it online like that no matter how secure paypal says it is.
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This is why you keep financial/ buisness emails seperate from everything else you register or communicate with because it does happen. Although its the easiest to commit fraud with... paypal also has the easiest payment recalling process so you should get your money back.
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The same thing happened to me, TC. Some lame ass online game charged me like... I can't remember how much. $128 or something. I called Paypal a few times. One time when I called them I heard a big ruckus, and a siren go off, meanwhile the woman on the phone was still trying to help me out HAHAHA. She said a hurricane or something was coming. Eventually she got cut off. Don't think they died though.
The important thing is that, after speaking with Paypal, I got my money back. I promptly changed my passwords.
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I got charged by "Ebay" for seller fees... when I hadn't sold anything and the charges were over $250! But I contacted Paypal and they refunded me the full amount. I then just took my credit card off of it like most of the people in this thread.
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hey fyou man beatport is a pretty gr9 site
actually I was thinking of boomkat or something I think beatport is that site anybody can link to on their myspace page and maybe get one download of their music from a friend
Edit: I meant like whoa I'm going to get so many digital downloads of my music content and then only person who downloads is maybe a friend trying to be nice
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so i get on my email today to a receipt from a company called beatport on my paypal. I have never even heard of this company but apparently its an online music store for "club" music, which I would never shell out good money for. I know that you can easiliy get ripped off by clicking on the fake paypal site links in fraudulent emails but i haven't gotten one of the those in a long time, and i certainly did not follow that link knowing it was fraudulent. you could tell when the whole message was one giant clickable link. D-errrr. anyways, this really pissed me off. I already sent a complaint to paypal and to the company that received my money, but i guess their office is closed saturdays. But yeah i got ripped off 98.00 bucks, for shitty club music, like insult to injury. How many people here have dealt with a sort of identity theft before. I never use my paypal account accept for ebay or to send money to my dad for bills. WTF?
Are you sure this particular email itself wasn't fake?
I've had emails with paypal charges before, but the links contained within the email lead to a fake paypal site (wait I don't even have a paypal account, how tricky)
i don't actually know anything about this shit, but, that's all i
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oh it was legit. i checked my pay pal and all was refunded and taken care of. joy.