Cookieknits, And does Other Stuff, Too!

You may have noticed, I didn’t get moved over to Blogger, like I said I was going to.

I have been dealing with a teeny identity theft problem. Someone hacked into my ebay and Paypal accounts, and tried to buy several thousand dollars worth of stuff. Fortunately, an alert seller cross-checks names and addresses, and noticed neither the names nor the addresses matched each other, notified both ebay and Paypal, and called me!

I have been busy changing passwords on everything I can think of, checking everywhere I do online business to make sure nothing else has been hacked into, and running three different programs to see if something has been downloaded onto my computer to give someone access to my passwords. Neither Adaware, Spybot nor MacAffee can detect anything other than 7 plain old cookies that have shown up since my last scan, which ran automatically last week.

Looks like I am safe, this time, again!

The last time this happened, someone at at doctor’s office stole my debit card number and tried to charge some stuff. Fortunately, that didn’t work either. First thing she tried was to start a membership with Columbia House Dvd’s. They sent the Dvds to MY house, not hers, because their system went with the address that was on file with the bank! That alerted me.

I called my bank. The only other thing she had charged was some weight loss program, which hadn’t gone through yet, and the bank stopped it.

The doctor’s office figured out who it was, and fired her.

I have been very lucky so far that the only people who have tried this with me have been idiots.