TIFU by accidentally paying for my old boss’s company for an entire year

bro i’ve been stressed out of my mind for like two weeks. i kept seeing this massive charge on my account for "office supply logistics" and "cloud management."

i’m 19, i work at a boba shop, and i don't even own a printer. i was 100% sure some hacker had my info and was using my card to run a fake business.

i was literally about to pay for one of those expensive identity protection services because i was too scared. i felt like my life was ruined before it even started.

my cousin scanned my card history and statements through moneygot to see how much the hacker spent, to report to the police.

bro, the "hacker" was my old internship from senior year.

it turns out when i was helping my old boss set up their supply software, the company card didn't work and he asked me to do a "one-time payment" of 50 bucks to get the account verified. he promised to venmo me back (which he did), so i thought it was fine. what i didn't know was that the one-time button was actually a hidden yearly auto-pay subscription. i doubt if he knew it too. that day I paid for couple other stuff aswell, all of them were subscriptions.

i called the old boss and he felt like such an idiot that he sent me the 600 bucks back immediately plus extra for the heart attack he indirectly gave me, lol. i was losing sleep thinking i was a victim of a massive crime when it was nothing.

please check your statements if you see weird names. you might not be hacked, you might just be spending for someone else.

TL;DR: i thought i was hacked because of weird big charges, but it was an old internship: a “one-time” payment accidentally started yearly auto-renew subscriptions. old boss refunded them. moral: check statements, it might be subscriptions not fraud.