I got Jacked !

[Grumpy old man]

Spent hours with paypal and multiple visits to the bank shutting down accounts and changing all my security info ordering new cards and just a real pita !

Somehow a guy named Shawn Lyon got my checking acct info added it to his paypal account as his own bank account(seems the use numbers and not names ?) and decided to buy some snow boarding equipment from active sports/ the board house on my dime !

Once the bank reverses the charges I would guess the Board house will be out their money for the equipment if it has already been shipped ?

I'm thinking he would have to provide a shipping address to get HIS NEW GEAR ?

Has anybody had to deal with this situation before ?

[richard2717]

Wow........No I haven't and I hope I never do. Hope you get it resolved quickly. You would think PayPal would have some checks and balances that would have caught this since it was your active account with him trying to change the bank info and addresses. Makes me second guess using someone like paypal if it is that easy to hack

[fecklessgadfly]

Sorry to hear about this, Grump. Those Dipwads are trying these things all the time. With the hacks on major companies like Chase, Yahoo!, and more, there's no telling how they got your info. May have even bought it off the Internet in some of the darker areas.

If he was dumb enough to use his real name and address, there should be repercussions. Have you looked into pressings charges, or is that left to the bank/Paypal?

I hope you don't have any lasting problems over this.

[67ChevyRedneck]

My discover card has been hit twice, but each time discover shut it down before anything happened. The charges were like $1-$2 test charges to see if the card worked, but they were far away, one was FL, the other was TX, so they were flagged and my card shut down. Love discover. Thankfully, my bank account has never been hit.

If I remember right, paypal needs the account and routing numbers... kind of hard to know/get? Is this someone you maybe sent a check/payment to? They might have used a different name, but with your address and check numbers, they could do it?

I hate snow sports. I damn near paralyzed myself in a snowboarding accident around 2001. Haven't even been on a sled since.

[Grumpy old man]

I have a very good relationship with my bank and my money has already been returned , The Paypal rep said (Shawn Lyons) called into the board house and gave them the card # it wasn't processed by paypal it went directly to my bank somehow ? It's all a bit confusing to me but I check my accounts everyday and caught it very fast . Nothing worse than a thief !

They said he stole my info on 12/25/16 so now we have to go thru every single charge since then , I didn't pay attention to every less than $50.00 amount before but I will now !

[LockDoc]

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Sorry to hear that Grumpy.

I came back from a trip to GA a few years ago, no problem with gas charges until I got back to my home town and went to fill up. It wouldn't accept the Discover card. I called the number on the card and they said they put a hold on it. Wondered if I had charged $1300 worth of computer games, I said no, I don't even play computer games...... Someone at one of the gas stations ripped my number and other info off. Luckily all I had to do was get a new card.

LockDoc

[mongocanfly]

I've got a cabelas visa card and there have been 3 attemps of fraud on my card over the last couple years..they caught it every time so far before i got charged...other than them putting a hold on my card I never knew anything was going on.

[ranger danger]

My visa got jacked two times. Once I got a bill for a euro rail pass and one year subscription to the European cable TV. Once I got a bill for over $20k for woman's cloths from Nieman Marcus. The bank took care of it but I still had to change all my accounts.

[Malo83]

Had my VISA card jacked for $600 by someone in NYC years ago, credit union took care of everything, new card with new account, last time I use my card on the internet.

[el_fantasma]

Several ears ago we were burglarized. The thief stole two laptops and a credit card and used it to buy some donuts at 7 eleven. Apparently 7 eleven takes a picture of every transaction. The police saw the picture and immediately recognized the guy. They went to his house and some of our stuff was still there.

I was amazed the police even bothered but apparently he was guilty of several burglaries so they were motivated.

[Stocker]

Sorry to hear about it Grumpy.... glad though that things are working out but still a pita to deal with. Damn thieves are at it 24-7, I guess they never sleep. We've been lucky so far, have not been targeted (yet).

[87max]

maybe he works somewhere where your info passed through copied info and called in the card numbers. My business debit got it once for 6k luckily my bank caught it quickly & shut it down. I did get reimbursed. Last year someone walked into an apple store a few states away used my name & somehow got 7 I phones & accounts opened up on my Verizon account I think that was around 2k. That was an ongoing saga for 6 months with Verizon. I lost a few bucks by the time the dust settled but I just wanted it over with.

[BASE]

If the board house is a real place then they know where he lives. Start breaking bones until they give you his address.

This happened to me a while back and someone jacked my card through PayPal and ordered a bunch of high dollar camera stuff. When I checked into the vendor I found they were not a real vendor, just a website and a way to launder money.

$4k wasn't enough to get any LEO attention and the thieves turned out to be offshore. I would gladly spend $8k to find them and pay them a visit though.

[Grumpy old man]

Well the bank gave gave me his name and action sports / the board house as the vendor so I looked them up online and called them and talked to the manager after I explained everything and told him I understood he couldn't give me an address he agreed and said "Are you sure you don't know anyone named Shawn Lyon in Corryton ,Tn ? " Well Corryton is only about 10 miles away and so small it doesn't even have a blinking light so it only took a short while to find family members online along with his address ! One of his online account names is F*****G STONER so that explains a lot ... Now to find out how he accessed my account #s ?

[friscobob]

I bought a coffee at Starbucks with unusually poor service and an attempt to buy $4200 worth of something which got denied because it was way far from anyplace I'd ever shopped and way more than I had ever spent at one time. Resulted in a new card and nobody out of pocket. I'm more observant of where and how my card gets handled.
Bob

[el_fantasma]

Originally Posted by Grumpy old man

Now to find out how he accessed my account #s ?

How do you plan to do that?

[In The Ten Ring]

My sister is a drug addict but my parents refused to see it. She practiced signing my mother's name (right in front of mom, feeding her a story of "oh your handwriting is so nice, I want to be able to do that") and then withdrew several hundred dollars from mom's various accounts. She got greedy and tried to take out 10K but the bank spotted it and ran her off.

I talked my mother into filing felony charges against her but she had already fled the state. She had previously been arrested for grand theft after bouncing a check at a jewelry store where she ripped off a lifetime friend. My parents and I share an account so I went ahead and had to get some of my accounts changed too. I just wish she had forged my name instead of mom's. *I suspect mom has since dropped the charges, I would have pushed until she was put away.

Parents just cannot accept the fact that their kids become thieves. I asked my dad "if you knew she had a conviction for grand theft, why did you trust her here?" Dad said "we never thought she'd steal from us!" SMH

Sis also stole mom's jewelry, which she never saw again.

I had a Lyman folding sight stolen out of my mailbox in 2014. After that I stopped all delivery service of any kind to my house and I now pay for a post office box. Large items I will get sent to my parents or I'll pick those up in person at the Fed Ex or UPS hub.

[Grumpy old man]

Originally Posted by el_fantasma

How do you plan to do that?

[Grumpy old man]

Originally Posted by el_fantasma

How do you plan to do that?

Grumpy may be getting old but I'm still 6'2" at 265 , I plan on stopping by to have a nice pleasant discussion with him ending with him in handcuffs .

[ranger danger]

Originally Posted by Grumpy old man

Grumpy may be getting old but I'm still 6'2" at 265 , I plan on stopping by to have a nice pleasant discussion with him ending with him in handcuffs .

Perhaps ending with you both in handcuffs.....but it might be worth it!!!

[kcsa75]

I work in Information Security and can tell you that this is a cat and mouse game. As soon as a vulnerability is found and fixed, the bad guys start working on another way in. It just goes back and forth.

My bank card has been breached numerous times. Self service gas pumps and ATMs are among the easiest for crooks to use to steal CC information.

The good news is that most credit card companies and financial institutions are generally on top of their game and are able to catch most attempts before any damage is done.

[68C15]

Living that close it's possible he uses the same bank and has a similar account number. Keep a clear open mind when digging for truth