I Dun Been Robbed- Digitally!

[eddiememphis]

9:00am- Phone call from 1st Bank.

"We have several unauthorized purchases on your account. We are shutting it down."

10:00am- Email from Square.

"Your business checking account shows a $1.00 purchase from a foreign vendor. Click here to authorize..."

By 9:00 tonight, there have been transactions totaling thousands of dollars.

The banks keep shutting them down yet the assholes keep trying to buy stuff.

I never should have thrown away that chain letter...

[Ah Pook]

Happened to me 5 time over the last year.

It sucks.

[beast556]

Same here been hit 2 times this year. It boggles my mind how we can't stop these theifs.

[ray1970]

I used to get hit about once every year. I?ve dedicated myself to using PayPal and Apple Pay as much as humanly possible and so far I?ve managed to avoid being hacked.

[Sawin]

Maybe that's why the IRS has hired so many new (armed) agents? One could only hope.

[battlemidget]

Check with your financial institution(s), as they may have free 'ID protection' services, but you have to ask as they may not offer unless it's part of a remediation. Mine uses idnotify dot com and they monitor everything to include medical records and passport.

[newracer]

We get hit about every other year too. Last one was a few months ago.

[CHA-LEE]

Paying Credit/Debit for everything and doing Online Banking is convenient until your info gets stolen and exploited...........

[eddiememphis]

Update- 1st Bank was great. They were on the same day. The girl went through every purchase to ask if I had made it, including the McDonald's I bought that morning.

Square sucks, they told me to change my password. I had to go in and manually dispute the charges, and finally yesterday I received an email saying that they would put the money back in the account.

Yesterday, I got a box in the mail from a company called bio trust. In it were some joint pills. The address was wrong, but it did have my name on it so it ended up in my mailbox. The interesting thing is at the bottom of the invoice. There is the ordering customers IP address. It is not mine, so I am curious what I can do with that address.

[eddiememphis]

67.174.186.44