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Originally Posted by Exer
My little brother is headed off to college in a couple short weeks. This past year (2010) he got his first job, and while most of his money was going towards his college fund, he was so, so excited to be able to buy us all Christmas presents out of his "own" money. Money that he earned with his own hard work.
Unfortunately, his iTunes account was hacked. Or "compromised". Regardless of the terminology, "someone" was able to get into his account -- and because his iTunes was linked with his PayPal, and his PayPal was linked to his bank -- the hacker was able to make purchase after purchase, until all the money my brother had set aside in the bank for gifts was used up.
$500+ in charges.
It has been nearly two months now. He has been able to get some of the money back, but the majority is still tied up and being investigated by PayPal's fraud department.
You have to be pretty low to steal Christmas money from a kid. I know, my brother isn't exactly a kid anymore, but he'll always be my LITTLE brother, and when people mess with him it still pisses me off.
Bah. I have something else to rant about, but this was enough for one night.
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I can understand your anger and your brother is lucky to have you care about him.
There's a lot of fraud going on with iTunes these last months. I was called by Visa the other day, who asked if I had ordered something on a certain date with iTunes. When I said no, they answered that thieves were getting in iTunesaccounts again and that they would block the transaction. It was not a huge amount, so I wonder how they knew about that fraud.
It's a known problem; I feel PayPal should have seen it like Visa did, and therefore I hope your brother will get all his money back.
Good luck.
