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Old 04-08-2008, 01:02 PM   #1
Engine09
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Anyone with a similar experience?

Someone hacked into my account last week and grabbed $1300 from my bank account. Nothing to do with a phishing email or that sort of scam, just gained access somehow. My password might have been a bit simple and easy for some nerd with the right kind of software to hack in there.

PayPal said the money will be refunded to my paypal account any day now, just waiting. CIBC told me that the resulting 3 NSF charges are not their responsibility to refund since it was paypals fault, but they refunded 2 "as a goodwill gesture".

Paypal's customer service people are very clueless, I'm wondering if I should even go after them for the last $40 NSF charge.

Also, just a reminder to have a decent password for the important stuff online. Special characters, upper and lower case, all that stuff.


By the way, the theif that gained acces to my account bought $700 worth of World of Warcraft online characters. Do people actually pay good money for such buffoonery? Imaginary characters for real cash, jesus.
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