Your object lesson of the day:

[chotii]

If you have a Paypal account, and that Paypal account is linked to your person household account as the backup for 'if you buy something and your Paypal account doesn't have enough money in it'...disconnect it now. Tomorrow at the latest. Don't delay, don't hesitate. Go get a free checking account somewhere, put a dollar or five in it, and use that

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[evilmagnus]

Yeah, that's exactly why I never linked my Paypal to a bank account. If I did use it enough that I had to, it would be to a dedicated free checking account somewhere. Sorry you had to learn this the hard way. ;-p

[tafagirl]

.de is the German country domain ending - Denmark is .dk! And Burda is the largest publishing house in Germany and heavily into the sewing market if that helps?

[chotii]

Ooooh. .de == Deutchland. I got it. Sorry about the mistake there.

Actually, www.burda-ic.com is a MMORPG-provider website. I'm still trying to figure out why, unless *they* were hacked also, the fraudulent payments would go directly to a confirmed, long-time Paypal client like them. After all, every 'payment' listed their accurate website AND their real email address. It seems very unlikely to me that this company would want to be associated with fraud, as they would surely have a thriving client base already, paying them lots of money (you don't get to be a MMORPG without having a thriving client base, right?)

As of this morning, 2/3/09, Burda-IC has not responded to the Paypal dispute. If they don't respond with X days (it can't be 20 days, as I've already been told the funds will be reimbursed to me in 5-10 business days), the dispute is automatically closed in my favor. At this moment, only $30.28 is outstanding/disputed. The rest of those transactions have already been closed in my favor. I just haven't been reimbured yet.