Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Identity Theft

So recently I was a victim to identity theft. It sucks so bad, I didn't even realize this account was still open. I noticed money was being drawn out of my bank account from PayPal, which is an account you use when you buy & sell on ebay. I haven't used this account in like 2 years. I called them and they closed the debit card out but I noticed there were still purchases being made so I called and now at this point I am furious, I am transferred around about 5 times, put on hold for a total of about 30 minutes. It is ridiculous, they then tried to accuse someone in my family was doing this, I said lady why would someone in my family need to purchase $1000 worth of ads, all these purchases were for like google ads, yahoo listing and yellow pages.She then told me it would take 10 days for someone to get to my dispute and up to 45 days to resolve it. !WHat?!? So thankfully my bank is helping and trying to speed up the process. It makes me feel so vulnerable. It is just awful.