posted on March 20, 2002 08:47:49 PM new
PayPal's security is horrible and they don't live up to their guarantee. They allowed someone that I never knew and that I had never had any contact with accces to my account. One day I came home from work to find that someone had charged up my credit cards and tried to steal money from my bank account through Paypal. Luckily we check email every day or this person would have gotten away with siphoning all the available funds from my bank account. This person made charges to my credit cards including the Pay Pal credit card and if you include the bank account for $3,000K+ . I have been in contact with another person who has been defrauded. There are 5+ people thus far that I have found similarly affected. Paypal won't refund the amounts charged to my other credit cards or their own credit card even though I filled out all of their paperwork. The night it happened I called PayPal and the FBI and the Shelby County Sheriff to make reports. I have also contacted the FBI, the Secret Service, Local Police departments, the FTC, the IFFC, the Better Business Bureau, the Attorney General for California. I contacted PayPal's insurance company, who could only refer me to PayPal Investigations. They said that PayPal had a large deductible so I didn't qualify for an insurance claim and would have to go through PayPal. Travelers Insurance for PayPal. [email protected]. Another person at Travelers is Lisa Hirai at 860-954-4088. Of course I sent the information to PayPal Investigations like their website says but they keep asking for the same stuff over and over. The person I talked to at Pay Pal (Artie in Fraud) wouldn't return my calls last week and now Pay Pal is saying they don't know who Artie is. IF YOU LOOSE YOUR MONEY THROUGH PAY PAL THERE IS NO WAY TO GET IT BACK. I HAVE BEEN TRYING FOR OVER TWO MONTHS WITH NO LUCK!!!!!! Of coure, they are collecting interest on their credit card and to make matters worse charge me a fee for the illegal transactions. PayPal keeps saying I haven't sent in the necessary paperwork. I sent about 50 pages to them and then talked to their fraud department about the case (Artie). He asked me to fax a credit card statement, which I did twice. Of course now he won't return my calls and they won't credit our cards. They are stalling so they don't have to refund my money. What if they are doing this to thousands or millions of people? What kind of interest can they be earning if they scam 10,000 people for $1,000 a piece. Calculate it. And the kicker is that they won't let me close my PayPal Account. They have restricted it though so I can't get to the money that is in it. They messed up all of the auctions and they won't listen. They don't care.
Here are additional people who were victimized by the same person or with the same time period as I was:
Linda Compton. I supposedly send her 2 PayPal transactions of $1,000 and $300, however, the transactions were sent to [email protected] which is not her email address. Her real email is [email protected].
[email protected] ... Rusty Vernon (he's in Texas) and I have become friends because of this. He says his PayPal was hacked also, but he lost only $25 because it was an old bank account that he never got around to closing. But he did show one transaction of $25 that went thru to none other than Christian Corpuz. In fact, Rusty has used PayPal only once before, almost a year ago, and it's just been sitting there since with no activity until now.
[email protected] ... Michele D'Souza is an ebay seller and this is her correct email address. It seems the hacker used her name when they added a new email address to my PayPal account, because one of the emails added was [email protected]
Laura Leonard ... [email protected] ... Her PayPal account was hacked on 1/24/02 (I think that's the right date?). The name Christian Corpuz never came up in her account, but her account was hacked using an operamail.com email addy.
Mark Arsenault ... [email protected] ... http://www.goldrushgames.com/paypal.html ... his company's PayPal
account was hacked on 1/30/02 using an operamail.com email address. You can read his entire story at the link here.
Operamail is based out of Oslo, Norway as far as I can find out.
Artie at [email protected] is the fraud department that won't return calls or emails. His number is 402-935-2329. Neither will Tim.
