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WHAT?! SO SCARY! OMG. I always assume paypal is so safe.

I'm sorry, that Sucks!

That stinks! I got an email from paypal that they stopped someone in China(I think) from using my account. I had to say that it wasn't me. Luckily nothing came out of our account.

@Mrs. Pen: Check out this post. http://www.mymoneyblog.com/preapproved-payments-paypal.html

I would see if you have any preauthorized payments and perhaps those linked accounts were hacked?

@Smurfette: I got the same thing last week! Three transaction attempts from an IP address in China.

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.

@Mrs. Pen: WOW that sucks! I am guessing Paypal will give you the $$$ back, no problem... but still uber annoying.

@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.S. Contact your bank, too, if you haven't already!

@Mrs. Pen: A number of reports of something similar here:

https://www.facebook.com/Starbucks/posts/10151330167958057

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!

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.

@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.

@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).

PayPal had all my money refunded in 24 hours and a new card issuesd to me that week.

@Mrs. Pen: yeah, if your account is linked, they'll want to know to monitor for fraudulent activity.

So sorry this happened to you! I'm going to set my paypal to phone verification like someone else suggested..

@MamaMoose: I can't believe this happened on HB??

@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.

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:

http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/some-tips-on-using-the-hellobee-classifieds-to-buy-and-sell

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.