I woke up the other morning and noticed i had two charges for 150 dollars on my paypal account. Both were from twitch.tv. Ive used twitch before and have had a few subscriptions to different streamers over the years but nothing like this. Currently i only had one 5 dollar subscription.
First thing i did was try to log into twitch but my account was deleted. Some message like this username doesnt or no longer exist popped up i believe. I
So i put in a claim with paypal about an unauthorized charge and it was denied. I contacted twitch but all they did was direct me on how to apply for my account to be reactivated.
Today i called paypal and talked to the rep but they seemed to have trouble understanding what was happening as the charges showed as automatic payments for both of them. I tried to explain what twitch.tv was and that i only had one subscription for 5 dollars per month. She said they could not reopen the unauthorized claim again but that she would contact twitch so i was no longer using there services because my account was deleted.
My theory is someone hacked into the account and donated bits to themselves then deleted the account. I cant imagine twitch being to helpful here.
Please any advice is needed right now. Also both charges have been preapproved but have not went through with the bank yet.
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