This just happened to me too, just yesterday. Mine was $1964 dollars!! Quite a shock. And of course it made my bank account overdrawn, and now making autopayments be overdrawn too! It was an eBay auction that they used my paypal account to fund the transaction. My eBay user ID was not used to buy the item, but they used my paypal account to pay for the item. It even showed the guys name to ship it too, a different name and a different shipping address than was on my paypal account. The guys name was John Garfield in Richmond Kentucky, I am in So Calif. I immediately contacted the seller, that this was an unauthorized transaction, that my account was hacked somehow. Told them not to ship anything. Then contacted PayPal that this was an unauthorized transaction. PayPal was quick in reversing the transaction, but it still shows pending in my bank account. And they said it would take 2-3 days to be credited back to my bank account. I also called my bank to notify them that that transaction was a fraud, so they flagged so they could reverse my overdraft charges when it is reversed. I have been trying to find out how this happened. I had a pretty secure password. Hadn't used my paypal account in 4 months. I still would like to know how this happens. Was PayPal compromised? I never click on any links to direct me to paypal, always type the url directly. PayPal has something they offer, for a fee of course $29.95, but it is a secure pin card. As soon as my bank account is credited back, I am going to purchase that. It will give me extra security for the future at least.
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