I made two purchases through paypal from a company Gadget World with a website www.gadgetworldforu.com for a total of $319.98. I went back to the website to check the status and the website was gone and the phone number disconnected. I immediately emailed the address provided on ebates receipts. Next thing you know my email was hacked and being sent spam every second on the second. 10k emails in one minute. Then an hour later my bank account was cleaned out. Luckily my bank caught it. I filed a dispute and escalated it right away. These people had a paypal account and according to my receipt paid a paypal fee. I am praying paypal decides in my favor. Has anyone had this happen? There really is no where for me to advise paypal of this and I tried calling paypal but it is all automated. This has been a nightmare. I had to delete my email I had for the last 20 years and contact all my credit companies and banks...
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