Stolen Credit Card

I always thought I did a good job of keeping my personal information under wraps, but as of Thursday, I’m officially a victim of credit card theft.

I’m one of those anal people that checks my bank account every morning to see what cleared, and noticed a PayPal transaction for $87.82. I then logged into PayPal and saw that there was no record of the purchase. Usually if something hits my checking account marked PayPal, it means that I didn’t have enough money in my PayPal account and portion was taken out of each account. Not so in this case.

PayPal didn’t have any record of the purchase initially, but after searching through their records by my cell phone number, they pulled up the original purchase, which was in Euros. The thief could have been buying horse supplements for all I know, because I had never heard of the company and I certainly didn’t purchase anything in Euros, and how the purchase bypassed PayPal and went straight to my checking, no one knows.

Anyway, both PayPal and my bank were very helpful. My debit cards were cancelled and both have sent the issue to claims and I should have the money refunded by Tuesday.

Now to figure out what I did, or didn’t, do that put my information at risk!

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