Bah

[unixronin]

Strong circumstantial evidence indicates my debit card has been compromised.  The first clue was when I downloaded bank transactions to Moneydance, and there was a transaction purporting to be a debit to PayPal that didn't show up anywhere in my PayPal account.

It should go without saying that all appropriate steps have been taken.

Keep your eyes open, folks.  Read your bank statements carefully and question any transactions you can't identify.  There's a lot of thieves out there.

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[genuine-snark.livejournal.com]

That's a bit of a mystery. To my knowledge, there's no way -to- get a debit by PayPal that isn't deposited into your PayPal account.

I don't think PayPal has a way for account holders to take money from someone else's card directly. They dun your PayPal account, which refills itself from the card/CC as necessary to complete the transaction. And to initiate that, it's your PP account that would be stolen (happened to me a couple of years ago).

Wonder what PayPal will make of the transaction. Any chance one of the fambly opened up a new PayPal account agains your card and didn't think to tell you?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That's a bit of a mystery. To my knowledge, there's no way -to- get a debit by PayPal that isn't deposited into your PayPal account.

Which is why I wonder whether the whole transaction was forged. Yet, even though it didn't show up in my account, PayPal apparently had some data on it. This makes me curious, but I was a little too rattled to dig too deeply into it when I spoke to them.

Any chance one of the fambly opened up a new PayPal account against your card and didn't think to tell you?

Slim to none. I'm the only one who has that card.

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

There's a possibility that your number may have been skimmed from somewhere and used to fund someone else's Paypal account. It's wicked scary how easy it is to jack someone's card. One way is for an online retailer's machines to be hacked. that nice professional website you just bought your widget from may have had their server fall victim to some exploit. this means debit card number, CVV code, name and billing address. everything to fraudulently use a card online.