written by phangantiger on 24/07/2012
Five transactions suddenly went through my Paypal account totalling £150. Immediately I cancelled Skypes authority to take payments on Paypal and applied for a refund. If I had not been online at the time my entire bank account would have been drained.
Skype claim that my account was hacked and that someone made the purchases. This does not make any sense. The purchases would have been for me and the money still went to Skype so there would have been no benefit to the hacker.
The invoices for these payments were for subscriptions to the Phillipines (I do not know anyone in the Phillipines) and then 4 top ups of £28.75 when I only authorised top ups of £11.50.
Whatever you do - do not give Skype access to your accounts with any auto top up otherwise the same may happen. Do this manually. There is obviously something wrong with their payment system.
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