[evilz99]

Not sure if this belongs here but best place I could think to put it and feel like I need to share this with.
Tuesday I recieved a call from my bank asking me about a few suspicious charges from Egypt. Long story short they concluded I was a victim of identity theft. The next day I get a call from the bank again saying that a company that deals with def and mute people were trying to make a transaction on my behalf. Luckily the person that took the call knew me my hole life and new I was able to hear and speak and denied them the transaction. The worse part is they had my social security #, Address, all bank accounts, full name, basically everything about my whole life. Bad news is the bank found out it was from PAYPAL. Apparently paypal is one of the easiest websites to hack info from.

The point is please be carefully how you use paypal. This has been a huge pain to deal with and hope none of you have to do it ever.
My bank told me a wise thing to do is use a separate "dummy" account for paypal only and just keep the minimum in it until you need to use paypal and then transfer the needed funds from your main account to the dummy account and than use paypal. She told me that's is.becoming very common and the safest way to use paypal if their is no other option.

I just wanted to share the warnings and info with all you guys and girls so maybe you can avoid it. Believe me this sucks. Because they have my social, and I work in law enforcement I actually had to inform my internal affairs dept in case some one ever gets arrested and trys to use my identity. If they were to do that and I didn't report it I could have lost my job temperarily until it was all worked out which could have taken months. Mean while I could have lost my house and not been able to feed my family during the long process of proving my innocense.
SO PLEASE USE PAYPAL WISELY AND AS SAID BEFORE I HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE AVOID THIS GIANT HEADACHE AND INCONVENIENCE...