I was just searching around the web for some DIY supplies and happened upon Heaven Gifts. Took a look around and noticed they had some pretty good prices on some items I was searching for. When I first visit a site, I usually check out what the shipping charges are; so I put a few items in the cart and was required to log in/register to go to the checkout and check the shipping prices. ***NOTE*** I had never been to this site before. So I proceeded to register and entered my email address and a password. I got a notice saying, "an account with this email address already exists." Hmmmmm, I didn't remember ever visiting this site before so I checked my web browser history as far back as a month before I even started vaping. Nothing about this site in my browser history. So I put in my email address and entered one of my passwords and to my amazement..."Welcome DoctorJ" 
Ohhhhh-Kay. I checked the profile information and it had all of my info except one thing was incorrect, my birth date. It had it listed as 12/05/12. I obviously knew that was incorrect because I am quite sure that I am not 9 weeks old! I sent the vendor a request to close that account as I did not open it myself. So I went back to my browser history and noted all of the vaping vendors I had dealt with and changed my PW on those sites. I then went back to Heaven Gifts and noticed the company is of Chinese origin. I immediately checked all of my banking records to make sure there were no unauthorized transactions, fortunately there weren't any. I always make sure none of my financial information is left on any of the vendor sites I deal with. I always say no when asked to save it.
This really freaked me out to the point that I changed every PW on every site that I do business with and emailed my bank to notify them of a possible compromise to my financial information.
I think tomorrow I will close the email account this was registered to just in case.
I had a similar experience with a Chinese vendor before (non vaping related). After dealing with the vendor, I had 3 unauthorized charges from various places. Fortunately I have a great bank that cleared everything up with one call. Had to change my account number, etc. All of the vendors I have dealt with for my vaping needs thus far are all in the US. None of them I know of has any connections to China.
The only thing I can think of to explain this is one of the vendors I have dealt with or are registered to has been hacked. But maybe my email was hacked. I don't think so, but who knows.
Has anyone else ever had an experience like this before with a vaping vendor? Are there any vendors out there I should be wary of or totally avoid?
Ohhhhh-Kay. I checked the profile information and it had all of my info except one thing was incorrect, my birth date. It had it listed as 12/05/12. I obviously knew that was incorrect because I am quite sure that I am not 9 weeks old! I sent the vendor a request to close that account as I did not open it myself. So I went back to my browser history and noted all of the vaping vendors I had dealt with and changed my PW on those sites. I then went back to Heaven Gifts and noticed the company is of Chinese origin. I immediately checked all of my banking records to make sure there were no unauthorized transactions, fortunately there weren't any. I always make sure none of my financial information is left on any of the vendor sites I deal with. I always say no when asked to save it. This really freaked me out to the point that I changed every PW on every site that I do business with and emailed my bank to notify them of a possible compromise to my financial information.
I think tomorrow I will close the email account this was registered to just in case.
I had a similar experience with a Chinese vendor before (non vaping related). After dealing with the vendor, I had 3 unauthorized charges from various places. Fortunately I have a great bank that cleared everything up with one call. Had to change my account number, etc. All of the vendors I have dealt with for my vaping needs thus far are all in the US. None of them I know of has any connections to China.
The only thing I can think of to explain this is one of the vendors I have dealt with or are registered to has been hacked. But maybe my email was hacked. I don't think so, but who knows.
Has anyone else ever had an experience like this before with a vaping vendor? Are there any vendors out there I should be wary of or totally avoid?
! What a ridiculous story! Heaven's Gifts is one of the first ecig vendors from the beginning of Vaping. I have shopped there many times over the years. They are a safe and reputable company. You obviously opened an account there yourself and forgot about it.
