Has anyone had problems with Pay Pal? Someone got on my account and made 6 charges to my master card.?
471357
Are you sure you didn't accidentally answer a phish email that looked legit?  Many of the phoney ebay and paypal emails now look so real that many have been duped into giving info they don't remember giving.
308933
why dont you use Pay Pal?\n\neveryone accepts it and you dont need any credit.\n\njust go to their site and open an account
79383
its a secure payments solution with no monthly or a/c opening charges. its only charge when you recive payments. I am also using this facility.... Good. visit https://www.paypal.com/row/mrb/pal=F5GQYBE5V93AU
681912
be careful with sites like that one because you can be charged big time, take it from someone who has been there done that lol
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Reporting someone to the BBB is useless.  They are a private organization with "no teeth."  Report the scammers to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission,) or your state's Attorney General's office.  Those guys can put people in jail.  \n\nBut FIRST cancel the card immediately.  The card company will issue you a new number and send you a new card.  When you call the card company make notes of the date, time, and name and title of the person you speak with.  The next day send them a confirmation letter re-stating the conversation that you had with them on the phone.  The letter MUST go by "certified mail-return receipt requested."  This is just to protect you in case someone on their end accidentally deletes your conversation from their records.  They are not likely to be malicious towards you but mistakes can and DO happen--cover your A$$.\n\nWhen you get your bill you should ALWAYS check it closely and be sure the charges are correct.  You can dispute and possibly have bad charges removed. But there are tight time limits.  \n\nIf they are off-shore it may be bye-bye time to your money.  Different rules.
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Call Shopping Essentials or whoever it is and inform them of the unauthorized charges.  If you are not getting any resolution from them, contact your credit card company to dispute the charges.  The vendor will have to provide a authorized signature slip or some sort of authorization to prove you made the charges.  If they fail to do this within 30 days, the charges may be removed.
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I am sorry to hear of what happened. This should be a lesson for you in terms of the dangers of online selling. I sure hope that now you don't think anymore that the man contacted you "IN GOOD FAITH" because as you are now aware, his intention is to simply empty your bank account.\n\nI don't think there is any organization in the world that can help you get your money back, especially since you are in the Philippines and this is Nigerian. If you think the person gave you correct name and contact info, you may want to file a complaint with the Nigerian embassy in the Philippines. It may not likely result to you getting back your money, but sometimes the process of doing something can make you feel better.\n\nI also have a website, and we CANCEL all orders coming from Nigeria and other well known hot beds of ecommerce scams (sorry to Nigerians here, but Nigerian scams are giving a bad bad reputation to Nigeria) -- no matter how well meaning the transaction appear to be. \n\nAnd DON'T EVER EVER GIVE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER AGAIN. Don't deviate from your well established procedures like accepting only payments from Paypal.\n\nRead the article "How to Protect Your Business from Online Fraud" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol34/fraud.htm
643722
cancell the card like now...and check if they billed you. If they did report as fraud. Get a new credit card
574738
I am sorry you are victimized through lucrative offer. How do you believe such a fraud offer.  Anyway don't give your\n Bank or  credit card details otherwise you will incur heavy financial losses.If you have already given any such details, please ask your bank not to effect any payments to any party without your prior consent before it's too late.Please don't get trapped again by such fake offers in future.I hope you are not looser in this game.
302225
Try to reverse the charge thru complaining to your credit card company, the reason is fraud or no good or service rendered, ecurves will contact you instead of you chasing after them.
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I live in Brazil and frequently bump into this situation. I haven't yet used any of the possible solutions and they might be slightly different for people in Australia.\nFirst of all, it's necessary to define what kind of barrier you're bumping into. I know of these:\n1) Credit card billing address is not in the US. The main concern here is credit card fraud. The site is woried that it won't be able to collect/prcecute you if you deny this purchase. If you buy alot, maybe you can open a checking acount in the US and have a credit card linked to it. Also, it seems to me that credit card compannies (Visa and Mastercard) are trying to address this issue and it seems that one solution will be thru the use of debt cards (Electron and Maestro) with enhanced seccurity. In these cases, smaller sites, in which you can acctually ring in and talk to someone might accept money order or some other solution.\n2) Another barrier is that a site might not have international delivery. One thing that might work, and I'm not sure this is what you were calling proxy, is a US address. I've received several e-mails offereing this service, but since I buy mostly books and cd's, I wasn't interested. Basically, you register and receive a US address. When ordering, you enter this address and the sites will ship your orders there. The company offering this virtual address service will then mail it to your real address. The only company I know that does it is LanBox. It is a Lan Chile group company which should qualify it as a reasonably serious company. But it operates only in some Latin American countries (I supose the ones Lan Chile flies to). Its site is at http://www.lanboxusa.com .\nWhat you might want to be aware of in these services is if the companny offering this service is giving you a P.O. box or and actual address. I've seen some sites stating that they do not mail to PO boxes. Also, this service is not cheap. There is a flat fee (or rent if you will) and a cost per order. Plus the delivery cost that the site will charge you.\n3) Finnally, another kind of barrier I've encountered is when attepting to buy a downloadable item like music or films. itunes and Google Videos, for example, do not allow sales to Brazil. I guess there concern here is that the legal system and law enforcement agencies will not do enough to prevent piracy. I think there are proxies that might be of use if the downloaded file is not limited to one computer only. There are a few questions on Answers concerning proxies and following these might give a clue.\nI know none of this helped you much but it might help some of the other readers. :(\nPS: Don't have to give me the points.
856209
YES!  And sorry to say, but you probably won't get your issue resolved.  They are always right and you are always wrong.  That's will all of the bill people you have to call.  Good luck to you!
866098
I do not know how you paid for this, but one thing you can do, if it was a personal check or a direct debit from you checking account, go to your bank immediately and tell them you are a victim of fraud.  They will have you fill out a simple form and then they can reverse the charge and put the money back into your checking account.  If the payment was a debit from your account you should close the account because they would try to debit it again.  I had this problem once with a $650 online order when the merchant refused to communicate with me and by doing this I was able to get all my money back.  The bank credited it back into my account immediately and that was it.
627884
If you negotiate prior to paying they agree in writing " they will delete the account once payment is sent".  Most wont play that gmae, they intend on reselling it once paid to another collector and hurting you again.  I find the only way to stop this if it happens, contact the original person who sent the item to collection and advise them you paid this amount and to whom. Then ask them to make it stop since you have paid.
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Call your bank and explain the situation.  If you used your debit card, they can close it and open you another one with a different number.  If you gave them your actual account number, ask your bank to freeze and/or close that account and make you another one.  Time is a factor, so do it right away to prevent any unauthorized charges!
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Since the "product" was shipped in August, and received by the customer at about that time, why did it take 3 months for the customer to charge "fraud"?\n\nIt seems to me that since the customer has not returned the item, that they are merely trying to acquire a "product" without paying for it.  You should inform the credit card company of the facts, and indicate that you believe that they are aiding and abetting a fraud. \n\nNext find an attorney that would be willing to initiate a civil action against the customer and the credit card company. You can get a referral from the local bar association.
809691
OH YES!!!!!  i've had problems with them about 5 yrs ago---and just recently again---they were charging my bill with a cell phone i never had.....my bill was over $900  I spent almost two hours on the phone with them, after they completed their research they found the error---but just the same i had to spend my time to straighten out this mess.......so watch them......my advise to you with at&t, be careful what department you talk to, they have billing, the payment center and of course the collection department.  these 3 departments have different amounts on \naccounts that is owed.....always talk to the billing department they have the accounts more up to date. good luck.