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I was greeted this morning with an email from PayPal, giving me a receipt for “my” payment to some company, in the amount of close to $200. At first I thought it was yet another phishing email, because I know that I don’t live in or know anyone in Indonesia where the product is being shipped to. But I figured I’d better make sure, so I logged in (without following a link) to my PayPal account, and sure enough there was a record of a payment being made in that amount. Ugh.

So I changed my password to some insane thing, and filed an unauthorized activity claim. I then called my bank (which my PayPal account is linked to) but as of yet they have no record of the charge trying to go through. Hopefully it won’t. Finally, I tried giving the company a call that the product was apparently ordered from after looking up their phone number on Google, but that call went to voice mail and then a notice that the voice mail box was full. Hmm. I hope that this whole thing is resolved quickly.

Update: About 40 minutes after I wrote this, I received a notice from PayPal saying that the matter was resolved & that they had approved my claim. Whew!

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