My American Express has recently been maxed out by someone committing fraud from my PayPal account. It seems that someone has hacked in to my PayPal account and used my credit card to create payments to themselves via their email address. I haven't used PayPal in over 6 months and just yesterday I had all these emails stating recent activity of payments being submitted by me to another PayPal member, then some saying that certain amounts have been refunded. All up, over €1000 has been charged on my credit card which Amex is looking into.
I have written to PayPal informing them of this fraud and I got an impersonal email back from them saying that I had insufficient evidence to support the Unauthorized Claims I was making. Now, today I see that someone has deposited €420 into my PayPal account. All of this activity just reeks of an Internet money scam. PayPal could take much better care of our security to ensure people do not hack into our accounts and make unlawful payments to themselves on our behalf. I have since removed both my credit cards from my PayPal account and changed my password. I now have the hassle of claiming back the money that was unlawfully spent on my card, as well as waiting for a new card and informing my merchants of the change of card number. PayPal has let me down, and what's the use of providing such a "secure service" if they can't even protect the genuine people using it!!????
Beware of a user going by the name of Giuseppe - he's the fraudster that stole my money - I am sure I am one of hundreds of victims. Please spread the word so that PayPal gets the message to better look after its members.
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