https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 17 May 2026 21:58:49 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked/page/2#post-1520126 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:13:21 +0000 MrsTiz 1520126@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>:( hope it gets worked out soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked/page/2#post-1520121 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:12:29 +0000 mrbee 1520121@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: Hope everything worked out for you!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1505938 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:38:00 +0000 AmeliaBedilia 1505938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Paypal is great. I had an issue last week where ebay overcharged me. 4 calls with ebay=nothing. One 5-minute call to paypal and they refunded more than what ebay overcharged. Give them a call. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1504700 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:35:58 +0000 LuLu Mom 1504700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>:( these things suck so bad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1504410 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:20:25 +0000 mrbee 1504410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: @T-Mom: The person in question was selling a number of $4 headbands and never delivered... I think most people hadn't paid yet, but a few had and were able to recover their funds by disputing on Paypal. I posted to her wall as well, so that anyone considering a transaction could see my post asking what was going on.</p> <p>As long as you pay through Paypal and dispute a purchase within 45 days of payment, you should be relatively safe transacting online. Some other bees shared their tips for buying and selling safely online here:</p> <p><a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/some-tips-on-using-the-hellobee-classifieds-to-buy-and-sell" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/some-tips-on-using-the-hellobee-classifieds-to-buy-and-sell</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1504224 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:21:54 +0000 MamaMoose 1504224@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T-Mom: yeah it was weird. She was a pretty regular poster and this was pre-classifieds so she started a thread to post a ton of headbands for sale, people agreed to buy them, and then she disappeared. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1504222 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:21:33 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1504222@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T-Mom: @MamaMoose: I've been wary of selling/buying from people in classifieds who aren't regular posters as well. I know there are a couple who created accounts just for classifieds and it makes me more cautious. </p> <p>@Mrs. Blue: good call :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1504212 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:18:46 +0000 bunnylove08 1504212@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunny: thanks for the link I just checked my account to see if I have any pre approved merchants, thankfully I dont </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1504194 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:14:45 +0000 T-Mom 1504194@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So sorry this happened to you! I'm going to set my paypal to phone verification like someone else suggested..</p> <p>@MamaMoose: I can't believe this happened on HB?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503356 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:47:36 +0000 Mamaof2 1503356@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: Me too! Someone in China tried to use my Paypal accgt so they froze it and emailed me! yikes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503338 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:34:28 +0000 Mrs. Blue 1503338@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: yeah, if your account is linked, they'll want to know to monitor for fraudulent activity. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503280 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:49:33 +0000 808love 1503280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got an email yesterday saying Starbucks is changing their app ASAP. Maybe it's related to the reload frauds. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503279 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:37:04 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1503279@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: yes. I have a PayPal debit card and someone ran my credit card without authorization. (They "stole" my number when I made an over the phone payment, then reran my card a few months later). </p> <p>PayPal had all my money refunded in 24 hours and a new card issuesd to me that week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503231 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:34:16 +0000 StbHisMrs 1503231@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That is scary I hope they fix it for you. </p> <p>I questioned an email from them today, I transferred some money from paypal to my bank acct on Saturday, I received a confirmation email too. Then today I got the exact same emai but today's date.</p> <p>I hope you get it back to working soon :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503162 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 23:27:03 +0000 Kimberlybee 1503162@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: Awww that's not cool! Crossing my fingers that you will get it back, it might take a few weeks to research, but Pay Pal better step it up. So much fraud going on with credit and online transactions now. Hang in there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503158 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 23:21:41 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1503158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Kimberlybee: I actually never keep money in my paypal account either. I had recently sold some of J's baby clothes here though, and had it in there for the last couple weeks since I planned to buy DH a birthday present with it. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503152 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 23:16:15 +0000 Kimberlybee 1503152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pay pal always advertises how secure they are so hopefully you will get the money back! How scary and annoying. I have a separate account for my pay pal spending, there is never much money in that account. I usually have to transfer money into it if I want to buy something more than $50. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503121 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:44:45 +0000 BSB 1503121@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow! That sucks. I hope PayPal gets you your money back. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503075 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:55:46 +0000 leelee 1503075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So sorry this happened! Someone hacked my paypal a couple years ago. I disputed the transaction and got my money back but it took about 2 weeks? Hope you get your money back! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503057 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:43:21 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1503057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: oh wow... yeah that's exactly what has happened to me. No one on there said if they got their money back though :-/ I'm trying to take all my personal information off my paypal account just to be on the safe side, but it won't let me while payments are processing... ugh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503040 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:32:49 +0000 mrbee 1503040@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: A number of reports of something similar here:</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Starbucks/posts/10151330167958057" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/Starbucks/posts/10151330167958057</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1503014 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:18:39 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1503014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Blue: why my bank? The money wasn't taken from there... ETA the more I think about it, the more I think you're right. I'll call them to give them a heads up my account may have been compromised and not to authorize anything weird. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1502986 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:01:29 +0000 Mrs. Blue 1502986@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: I'm so sorry your dealing with this! Someone hacked my grouping account a few months ago and spent several hundred dollars because our debit card number was stored in our account. It took probably a few days to get the money back in our account, and then we had to fill out some paperwork, too.</p> <p>P.S. Contact your bank, too, if you haven't already! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1502974 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:53:53 +0000 snowjewelz 1502974@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No! I hope you get your money back ASAP! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1502970 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:52:22 +0000 Reese 1502970@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: WOW that sucks! I am guessing Paypal will give you the $$$ back, no problem... but still uber annoying. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1502963 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:46:35 +0000 Raindrop 1502963@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow so scary! All my fun money is in my paypal account... I feel I should move some money out. Yikes! Thanks for sharing. Paypal is normally really good about this stuff so I hope it works out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1502939 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:30:58 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1502939@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I've never had a starbucks card either! I NEVER go to starbucks because there isn't anyone in the area! Man that is a crazy story though... oof.</p> <p> @sunny: ok, any idea how to make those accounts inactive? the link you shared didn't specify instructions. ETA: never mind! I figured it out :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1502936 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:29:20 +0000 mrbee 1502936@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: Ah here's one of the reports I was thinking of... apparently Starbucks card's Auto Reload feature can be abused to launder funds:</p> <p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/08/07/how-scammers-drained-1700-from-my-bank-account-using-starbucks-cards/" rel="nofollow">http://gigaom.com/2013/08/07/how-scammers-drained-1700-from-my-bank-account-using-starbucks-cards/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1502935 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:28:59 +0000 MamaMoose 1502935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yuck! I had a dispute on paypal (it was actually someone on Hellobee who posted a bunch of headbands for sale and then took money from us and never sent the headbands!). I would say it took about a month but paypal rebated me the money in full. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-paypal-was-hacked#post-1502934 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:28:42 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1502934@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunny: oh wow - never heard of that! Thanks for sharing. I just checked mine and starbucks wasn't one of them (never purchased anything from there using paypal), but there were other active ones that I will inactivate so thank you for sharing. </p>