Thursday, I received 12 email from PayPal, 6 informing me that I have paid 'Skype' $10 (total of $60) using my PayPal account and 6 more emails informaing me that my account has been refunded. All emails were sent within a 30 minute period.
From what I've been able to gather, someone was able to access my PayPal account and use my account and routing numbers to make payments to Skype. How they've done this, I have no clue.
As soon as I got off the phone with PayPal (Thursday morning), I contacted my bank, but they were not seeing any such transaction. I checked again this morning, and sure enough, all 6 $10 charges had hit my account. Now I have to wait 3-4 before PayPal actually credits the $60 back to my bank account.
I have to go through the process of closing one bank account and open another. What a pain in the ass this is. Switching the account isn't the biggest pain, though. Now I have to contact everyone to switch over the information for direct deposits and automatic withdrawls.
Now, to decide what I'm going to do about PayPal. Do I need to get rid of it, or can I make some changes to make my information more secure? I don't use it all that often, but it does come in handy when i need it. I usually only use it when I'm buying something on ebay, and I have it set up to pay my monthly "Benefactor" fee for TGO.
Oh well, I had nothing better to worry about today.