[ale] Fraudulent Transaction Funny for the Day

[leam hall]

Follow-up. The company found the transaction record and worked with me
to verify the fraud. I found out the police in my residential location
have jursidiction.   :)

Leam

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 3:19 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes bad things happen. Sometimes there's a silver lining that at
> least gives you a chuckle.
>
> A large, for me, transaction hit my PayPal account. I get an e-mail,
> know it's fraud, and contact PayPal. As usual the call center folks
> are pleasent and helpful. Unfortunately, even though they can dispute
> the charge, they have to investigate. Makes sense. Mildly painful to
> me for a week or so but I understand.
>
> Since the charge came from a corporate office I give them a call and
> ask to speak to their Fraud folks. Turns out they don't see the
> transaction on their PayPal account. Since they sell firewalls and
> security hardware I chuckle and suggest they may have an issue.
>
> Sometimes you just have to laugh.
>
> Leam