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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2022, 12:41:16 PM »
Hard to believe this stuff happens when you think about all the Cyber Warriers at the FBI that are guarding the vault.
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2022, 01:26:04 PM »
Hard to believe someone would just give money away when it's happened before.

 Updated browser over the weekend and both bank accounts, one brokerage, and my 401 account don't recognize the device I am using. Had to do a 2 factor sign in. One required a security answer.  One brokerage didn't ask for anything extra, will probably dump that one.
Netflix notifies me "New Device".

Lots of capability out there if sources would just use it. 
Eliminating the human factor might keep someone from giving away your money.

I keep a cushion in the main checking account. Get a text if it goes under that or above another value.  My deposits over $1000 get another message, as do withdrawals over $100. 
Text and email.  I have zip for credit.  No charge cards, no notes to pay.  Took a while to get to the point I don't want or need credit.   
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2022, 01:50:44 PM »
This will never happen again once we operate under the programmable digital US dollar.  :banghead:
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2022, 02:28:21 PM »
This will never happen again once we operate under the programmable digital US dollar.  :banghead:
Actually, what happened to JJ WOULD happen again.  It was human error, not following rules. 
They sent his dollars, digitally to an on-line bank.
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2022, 04:05:07 PM »
Just had a somewhat off topic thought, the funds were sent to META Bank. Isn't META the new name of Facebook's parent CO?

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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2022, 06:52:47 PM »
....until you get it straitened out, Malwarebytes is probably going to be your best friend....and a whole bunch of phone calls and password changes.
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2022, 08:07:32 PM »
He could post his password here and we could monitor it for him.
FOR FREE :)

She said they don't usually linger, and this has happened a couple of time before, but with our offices in other parts of Kentucky. They get the DD, transfer it to a preloaded debit, close down the account and move on to the next victim.

Would be interesting to know when the NEXT of the offices in Kentucky gets hit with a DD request. How many times has this happened? How many different locations?
When the new password is requested, generated, and sent to you (likely as a temporary password) from the company computer system it's probably already hacked. 
Malwarebytes on the company system might work :)

Keeping track of the Rubles to Dollar exchange rate might work to your benefit :)
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2022, 08:25:39 PM »
He could post his password here and we could monitor it for him.
FOR FREE :)


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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #23 on: April 04, 2022, 08:34:19 PM »
Maybe start a Password thread in the Unmoderated forum.
Everyone posts their Email PW and we could all join in and monitor them 24/7.
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #24 on: April 04, 2022, 09:43:44 PM »
Wife picked up a paper check today from the office for my missing paycheck.  I was in Lexington trying to visit my sister in the hospital.

Last week was one of those weeks when you are being severely tested.
1.  A big tree fell in my yard and on the house. The only damage it did was to the gutter, but my yard is a mess with a big tree sprawled all over the yard.

2. The wife's Jeep Cherokee stranded her in a parking lot and wouldn't shift out of park.  Worked fine by the time I got there, but I grabbed one kid and let her take the other to gymnastics.

3. Got a call from the OnCall system while I had my son with me, so I couldn't respond immediately.  One of the staff had Mt. Dew thrown on her by a handicapped person, so she called 911 and wants to press charges for 'assault'.  :roll:  I dropped the son off with Grandma and got the handicapped person calmed down, the staff decided the job was not for her, and I agreed.  Getting pop thrown on you is a good day in this business.

4.  Paycheck stolen by hackers.

5.  And this is the kicker, on Saturday my sister in the next town over was unresponsive and LifeFlighted to UK hospital in Lexington.  She has cancer in her lungs that moved to her neck and brain, and was keeping it to herself.  Mom noticed she was acting off, but didn't know why.  My brother and I took my mom up there to visit her and possibly see her for the last time, and they wouldn't let but two people in, so it was my mom and my sister's boyfriend.  We went back to the car to get mom's clothes so she could stay the night, and my mom met us in the lobby.  She told us to hurry because she told my sister she would be right back (sis is intubated and not completely aware, but is responding to mom's voice.)  My brother and I left, but had to come back and get mom because while she was in the lobby getting her clothes, my sister's COVID test came back positive, so no NO ONE can visit her.  Mom is devastated because she told sis she would be right back, she was just grabbing her clothes, and didn't get to come back.  She's afraid my sister is going to think mother abandoned her.

This has been a tough week, but I've got the Faith to pull through.  Pray for Cathy McQueen if you're the praying sort.  COVID made her sick enough to HAVE to go to the hospital, or she would have quietly wasted away from cancer until it was too late (likely already is).  The boyfriend said she refused to go to the doctor because she didn't want to face her condition.

On the plus side, my payroll hack seems minor in comparison to my sister's decline.  When it rains, it pours...
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #25 on: April 04, 2022, 11:06:33 PM »
My condolences and prayer that you will have comfort and straighten to see trough your present trials. Sorry to hear so much was dumped on you at once.
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #26 on: April 04, 2022, 11:18:43 PM »
Praying for your whole family brother. Peace, comfort, strength and understanding.

Not being able to be with your sister is criminal in my estimation. I watched my dad steadily go down from the window outside his room. I could telephone him but it was difficult for him to hold the phone right so he could hear. Only when the Dr. said he had just hours left were we able to be with him in his room.

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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #27 on: April 05, 2022, 07:12:32 AM »
Just remember you have a lot of friends here praying for you. Don't be afraid to vent if you need to.

Hang tough.
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #28 on: April 05, 2022, 07:25:19 AM »
Thats a lot dumped in your lap at once.  Sorry to hear.  Hang in, sometimes you just have to hunker down and push through.
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #29 on: April 05, 2022, 08:09:36 AM »
....until you get it straitened out, Malwarebytes is probably going to be your best friend....and a whole bunch of phone calls and password changes.

If it can find it. There's some viruses that infect Intel CPUs and aren't outside. Spectre and Meltdown are the two getting the most press of that type. They take up hardware memory and basically scan your data going through the processor. Unencrypted data at that. Most virus scanners aren't made to check hardware memory.
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