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Sorry for not giving notice in advance, the last week has been pretty hectic.

Someone apparently bought my name and address from some place online and is using it to open paypal accounts, spend money to the limit and then repeat that.

I've gotten several letters from lawyer firms to pay the balance of those accounts and I visited the police station several times now to open a case and prove that it was not me that spent several thousand euros with those accounts.

If I don't answer the letters from the laywers, I might get summoned to court and I would rather not pay the bill for some online scammers that use my name, so it took a while to get this sorted out. If there's nothing unexpected, I have a case opened and can reply to the lawyers so they hand it over to their fraud department, and I can focus on writing again.

I've already written part of the new chapter, so wednesday or thursday at the latest the new chapter should go up

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Demian Buckle

Thank you for the update. I am sorry for your troubles. Please take the time you need to get it sorted. I hope it is all resolved to your satisfaction.

Anonymous

I am very sorry to read that. Best of luck. Humn ... A few thoughts, if you want them: 1. The bank accounts and email addresses used, if yours, should be considered lost – you need new ones. 2. Make sure your actual PayPal account doesn’t get shut down. It might also be a good opportunity to change your password while you are at it. 3. Such frauds require at least an email address to work. Best make sure it isn’t yours, because faking identities tends to be facilitated by hacked email accounts. If it isn’t yours, that fact can be used as proof. 4. Its the same with the delivery address. If it is yours, this means the criminal is MUCH closer than you might think because the packages needs intercepting. If it isn’t, and not affiliated with you either, it also becomes proof – and a location for the police to start looking. 5. It is important to evaluate any (e)mail you get and make certain it is legitimate – scams of supposed scams ARE a thing. If they are, it is important to veto any false demands, especially if of legal relevance such as writs from lawyers or government offices. 6. Make sure to keep your lawyer up to date about anything especially things of legal relevance as listed with point #5. 7. If you veto and claim to be the wrong person, keep it short but very clear; don’t tells stories or give unnecessary information because you are likely to be misunderstood, possibly even end up digging yourself even deeper. … you may also want to know that this type of criminals like to play a “shell game” and doesn’t stop until … “the well went dry”. You better deploy effective countermeasures so that “dry” does not relate to your wallet or mental fortitude. I experienced this scenario a few times on the side of an online store dealing with faked orders, and it ain’t pretty.

chunwa

Thankfully they only bought my name and address, so my bank account does not get emptied by the fraudulent claims. I get letters by the lawyers to pay up, they just open paypal accounts, spend as much money as they can and then open a new one when they can't order more stuff. I just hope that paypal accepts that this is not me that's ordering all the stuff and they treat it as a fraud case, so they search for the online scammers instead of taking me to court