Although I have bought credit from Skype before, I don’t ever recall signing up for any of these subscription-style plans at any merchant. This is meant for monthly subscriptions and the sort. I didn’t even know this, but PayPal has a program of “preapproved” payments where a merchant can repeatedly charge your account without the need to type in your PayPal password. Long story short, it was my Skype account that was hacked. How? Was my PayPal account hacked? I changed my password, and then another unauthorized payment went through! I logged into my account (manually) and saw that multiple $35 charges did indeed go through. But the domain on the e-mail checked out. At first I thought it was just another phishing attempt. Tonight, I got several email confirmations for separate €25 Paypal payments to “Skype Communications Sarl”.
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