$1000 stolen from my rl bank account/USD balance/credit card and paypal

[Stephi Catnap]

I'm usually pretty careful but somehow someone got to me, I didn't notice until I went to withdraw my 450USD that I had made from my store and it had gone, I looked through my transaction history to find that somehow lindens had been brought with this money and then taken them from me, I got the guys name, he did this with 250,000 L$, the sums didn't add up because that was more that 450USD worth of lindens.. I checked my paypal.. and he had withdrawn the money I had from there too.. and also my bank account and also my credit card, all coming to just over $1000 worth. I've changed all my passwords and reported to LL who are looking into it and have put a hold on my main avatars account. I just hope there's some way I can get this back, I've spoken to a few people and they have heard of people being paid this back.. Its an awful lot of money for me... Its fraud.. Especially when they get my rl accounts involved. I don't usually like to keep large amounts of money in SL but I didn't want to make multiple credit processes as I used to do this and then got asked for identification and had to fill in a tax form while they stopped my money from being transferred to my bank account, so decided I would take my money out maybe every 2 weeks.. I'll be using alts from now on and will withdraw my money every day again. Does anyone know how long my account will be on hold for? Have you had or heard of anything similar happen to anyone else? I'm talking big money not small amounts of lindens.

[KatzLoverz]

contact sl support and contact ur bank..

[Amethyst Jetaime]

report it to the fbi cybercrimes unit too

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/cyber

[Stephi Catnap]

theres actually an fbi cyber crimes!?

 

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Yes there is...

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/cyber

Filing a Complaint with the IC3

 

[Abigail Longmeadow]

This sounds bad. That was a lot of money.

NEVER grant an object permission to auto-debit your SL account.
The only exceptions are dancers who must set up their tip jar to split tips with the club owner,
and landlords setting up rent boxes (the rent box may have to give refunds to tennants - but it is better for the landlord to do refunds manually rather than using an automatic system).
Be sure you can trust the person who created the tip jar/rent box, because you are giving them permission, through the object, to access your Lindens.

Watch out for fake Second Life web sites that ask you to log in with your password!
Note carefully the periods in the real web address. Also secured web sites should begin with https

The marketplace  is marketplace.secondlife.com
The login server   is id.secondlife.com
Your web profile   is my.secondlife.com
Your dashboard   is https://secondlife.com/my/index.php?lang=en-US

Also run an anti-virus scan on your computer, using up-to-date anti-virus software.