- Feb 2, 2005
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On Tuesday of this week (12/9) I get an email from Newegg telling me that an order I made has been denied, because of an unauthorized shipping address. I go to my NE account and notice that someone has made a charge of $1,500 for a couple of phones. There is also a name and shipping address in the account.
I immediately call Newegg and cancel the order, and change all of my passwords on all of my online accounts: Bank, CCs, email accts, etc. I then check my CC and bank balances; everything is OK thusfar.
Then I google the guy?s name and address; turns out that he is a student. I get his email address from the university domain.
Now, this part I regret. Not thinking things through, I email him to let him know that I ?am calling the police?.
Now, every morning since, when I try to log on to hotmail in the morning, I get a message telling me that there have been too many attempts to access my email account with the incorrect password, and the account is locked and will need to be reopened. I then have to change the password.
I have three computers: My gaming desktop, a second hand laptop I use to surf around the house, and my work system. I?m pretty good at keeping windows up to date, do not pirate software or visit sites that are obviously shady, but hey, these guys are pretty smart. I wonder if I am running an infected PC.
I made recent Newegg orders on all three in the last couple of weeks, but I haven?t used my laptop in the past week, which leads me to believe that if there was an infection, it would be on that (I have been resetting my hotmail password every day since the event on my desktop at work ?and- my gaming rig at home, and I am still getting password reset prompts).
As you all know, when you order from the egg, you get two emails: 1. Order verification, 2. Your CC charge has gone through. After the fraud charge was made, he clearly got my email address from NE and got into my email to intercept the Order Verification email, and either he is still trying to get into my email, or he is trying to get me to change the password on the infected system so he can get the fresh password (I have recently changed both accounts to different passwords). Both my Newegg account and my email account had the same password, originally.
How did this guy think he was going to get away with this, leaving his mailing address on my account?
Was it a prank on a fellow student, to try to get him busted for fraud?
This fraud seems isolated to my newegg account thus far; again, no CC charges have been found on any of my cards or bank account.
Cliff notes:
-12/9: Guy breaks into my Newegg account, tries to make $1,500 order.
-12/10: I learn about the break-in after I receive an email from Newegg saying that the charge didn't go through because of unauthorized address used with my CC.
-I ring Newegg and cancel my order, and change the passwords on all of my accounts online.
-I get online and get the fuckwit?s address from newegg; I then google his address and find out that he lives on campus at the University of Cincinnati. I get an email address from the school?s domain, and, Shooting from the hip, I send him an email letting him know that I am calling the police (which I now regret doing).
-I have been watching my credit card s & bank accounts online, there has been no changes.
-Since then, every morning Hotmail informs me that there have been too many attempts on my account, and my password will need to be reset. Someone is trying to get into that account.
I haven?t called the cops yet, because I don?t know if it would do any good. I need some advice as to what to do next; it seems as though this asshole is pinging me any way that he can.
Cheers.
Rakewell
I immediately call Newegg and cancel the order, and change all of my passwords on all of my online accounts: Bank, CCs, email accts, etc. I then check my CC and bank balances; everything is OK thusfar.
Then I google the guy?s name and address; turns out that he is a student. I get his email address from the university domain.
Now, this part I regret. Not thinking things through, I email him to let him know that I ?am calling the police?.
Now, every morning since, when I try to log on to hotmail in the morning, I get a message telling me that there have been too many attempts to access my email account with the incorrect password, and the account is locked and will need to be reopened. I then have to change the password.
I have three computers: My gaming desktop, a second hand laptop I use to surf around the house, and my work system. I?m pretty good at keeping windows up to date, do not pirate software or visit sites that are obviously shady, but hey, these guys are pretty smart. I wonder if I am running an infected PC.
I made recent Newegg orders on all three in the last couple of weeks, but I haven?t used my laptop in the past week, which leads me to believe that if there was an infection, it would be on that (I have been resetting my hotmail password every day since the event on my desktop at work ?and- my gaming rig at home, and I am still getting password reset prompts).
As you all know, when you order from the egg, you get two emails: 1. Order verification, 2. Your CC charge has gone through. After the fraud charge was made, he clearly got my email address from NE and got into my email to intercept the Order Verification email, and either he is still trying to get into my email, or he is trying to get me to change the password on the infected system so he can get the fresh password (I have recently changed both accounts to different passwords). Both my Newegg account and my email account had the same password, originally.
How did this guy think he was going to get away with this, leaving his mailing address on my account?
Was it a prank on a fellow student, to try to get him busted for fraud?
This fraud seems isolated to my newegg account thus far; again, no CC charges have been found on any of my cards or bank account.
Cliff notes:
-12/9: Guy breaks into my Newegg account, tries to make $1,500 order.
-12/10: I learn about the break-in after I receive an email from Newegg saying that the charge didn't go through because of unauthorized address used with my CC.
-I ring Newegg and cancel my order, and change the passwords on all of my accounts online.
-I get online and get the fuckwit?s address from newegg; I then google his address and find out that he lives on campus at the University of Cincinnati. I get an email address from the school?s domain, and, Shooting from the hip, I send him an email letting him know that I am calling the police (which I now regret doing).
-I have been watching my credit card s & bank accounts online, there has been no changes.
-Since then, every morning Hotmail informs me that there have been too many attempts on my account, and my password will need to be reset. Someone is trying to get into that account.
I haven?t called the cops yet, because I don?t know if it would do any good. I need some advice as to what to do next; it seems as though this asshole is pinging me any way that he can.
Cheers.
Rakewell
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