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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #30 on: April 05, 2022, 09:19:55 AM »
Thank you Gentlemen, I shall persevere. 

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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #31 on: April 05, 2022, 11:56:05 PM »
yeah, I never gave my e-mail address when I was working.........figured if they want me, they can pick up the phone and call.
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #32 on: April 06, 2022, 01:34:53 AM »
That's nice.
I didn't have that option with a company email and a NASA email.
Company went to a physical token and could watch everything I did on the computer.
Even had a secure modem card in my laptop for trips. 

No company or payroll info used my personal email. 
« Last Edit: April 06, 2022, 01:57:37 AM by Rocketvapor »
Well I guess my new **** stirrin paddle don't work . I got a like . WTF 😈

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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #33 on: April 06, 2022, 09:47:53 AM »
I switched everything over to a private email address also.  I shouldn't have been using the company email for paying utilities, etc, but it was just easier because I was on it everyday.  This doesn't violate any of our company policy, but companies are targeted more often than private citizens.

I think I'm in good shape, time will tell.  I set up two step verification with ebay, and already had it on my CCs.  I also get alerts sent to my phone anytime a charge is made without the card being present for the CC I use for bills.  I have most of the bills set to auto pay, then pay off the CC each month so there's no interest and only one payment to keep track of.
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #34 on: June 03, 2022, 05:28:52 PM »
Glad I work for a small elevator company in KY with DD. never had or heard of such issues with DD. Have had the typical CC bullshyte everyone eventually has to deal with. Since my company is less than 30 employees any such changes would be face to face...so I dont have that worry.  When I moved to KY from newjerkistaniland in december of 93 I was amazed to find how many businesses still honored checks !!. Up in the scummy north east checks were a relic or between absolute friends only.

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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #35 on: June 03, 2022, 05:41:05 PM »
OK, a story from my past.
First wife and I separated, She took off with some guy and went to Vermont. 
I allowed her to draw a fixed amount as 'support' on her debit card on our 'joint' account (being a nice guy and all that).

So, one week she emptied the account.   :shock:
I went to the bank to stop her card and couldn't.  She had signed the access in person and I could not cancel her card.  :banghead:
Called Corporate to change DD to another bank.  No problem, 4 to 6 weeks and my pay will start going to the new account.
Back to the bank, and the lady suggested I come in at first light (9AM) and suck the account to zero. 
OK, check for full amount, and it would not go through.  ??? She was in the Eastern Time Zone and 9AM had come and gone. 
The bank then suggested I make a couple purchases out in town, on a zero balance and the bank would watch for them and flag/freeze the account. 
Next Friday went in and drew out my pay.  2 weeks later the new account was active. 
Well I guess my new **** stirrin paddle don't work . I got a like . WTF 😈

Flo just received her EXPERT Mid range card from the NRA.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/famed-ex-uss-john-f-003916449.html

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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #36 on: June 03, 2022, 06:31:23 PM »
This looks like a sketchy link, but it's not.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

It's an open source intelligence site that looks at federation data and can tell if your email/phone number has been added to "for sale" database sites.
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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #37 on: June 03, 2022, 11:19:34 PM »
OK, a story from my past.
First wife and I separated, She took off with some guy and went to Vermont. 
I allowed her to draw a fixed amount as 'support' on her debit card on our 'joint' account (being a nice guy and all that).

That was your first mistake . . . even if your ex was onboard, her new bo would have been all over your cash like white on rice.

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Re: Email Hacked, Employer Gave my Paycheck to Strangers
« Reply #38 on: June 04, 2022, 01:06:05 PM »
Just to follow up on what happened to me.

It was pretty much my fault.  I ordered a device from an online vendor, and they used my shipping address to create the check with my real address on it to fool my employer.

The device was an actual product called a Tvidler.  The scammer is called EKOMLITA and is just a middle man.  You order something, they may or may not order it from a real vendor and get it sent to you.  The first thing they try after using your address is to NOT mail you the product, then send a "Customer Service" email asking you if you were satisified.  Of course you are likely to open the email because you never received the product, and BOOM, they're in. 

I luckily paid with PayPal, and after a dispute through, the product arrived from a different vendor way later.  I let PayPal know that EKOMLITA is a scam vendor.  The customer service email was sent to my hotmail, and I should have known better than to open considering what had happened.  I didn't put the two occurrences together until I opened the email and changes started happening immediately, and the ID Shield folks alerted me in pretty much real time that my data suddenly appeared on web.

I googled EKOMLITA, and they are known scammers, but they weren't the folks that I ordered from.  They must have set up a site that mirrors the real vendor, or have hacked that vendor to re route to them.  IDK enough about it to know how they did it.

Long story short, I don't use that Hotmail account anymore, and never used it for much anyway, the ID Shield is working, and I guess EKOMLITA has moved on to working other rubes.  I did a hard reset on my laptop and used the latest version of Windows, so hopefully any spyware they installed is gone.

I got scammed because I let my guard down, lesson learned.  I'm just glad I paid through PayPal, I'm trusting that their security is pretty good.  It's pretty amazing the havock the hackers created using just my email and mailing address.  I heard that AI is being used to hack now.  I ran into a friend that just had his Facebook hacked, and it was using his info to contact his "friends" with Trojan Horse bugs.

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