PayPal Spoof

[Tim McG]

PayPal Spoof

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This has been mentioned before [that there are phishers using false PayPal e-mails to access your account info, etc], but there is a new wrinkle:

I recently went to [via a service@paypal.com e-mail] what I thought was a PayPal site. The security icon at the bottom of the page checked out and the SSL certificates were up to date. I surfed the site and it came up with every item I searched for and looked legit. In fact, I got this e-mail from this "PayPal" almost immediately after ordering a CD. A coincidence, I am sure...but it still is something to worry about.

Today, we noticed three charges against our account via PayPal totaling over $1200 bucks.

Long story short, between our bank and PayPal it appears two charges have been removed and the third should be refunded to us within ten days. The scary part was whoever was doing this [some guy from the UK we found out] completely hijacked my account by blocking my access and adding his own e-mail address. In fact, even as I was changing the log-on info, I was kicked off of the PayPal site.

I am telling you all this for two reasons:

#1 DO NOT open any unsolicited PayPal e-mails, period. None. Zip. Nada.

#2 Be mindful of your own e-mail boxes that may have messages coming from my e-mail address. If they can hack into my PayPal account, they surely can hack into my e-mail address book.

I am in the process of and have done so on numerous accounts [including my e-mail] changed my access information. Just a heads up: DO NOT OPEN anything with my e-mail address for the next couple weeks or so. OK?

Rest assured, I have sent nothing to anyone here and I am doing everything within my power to change any/all log-on information to stop anything further from happening.

Be ever diligent, my friends....I just dodged a bullet.

Tim

Edited December 15, 2007 by GoodSpeak

[alocispepraluger102]

PayPal Spoof

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This has been mentioned before [that there are phishers using false PayPal e-mails to access your account info, etc], but there is a new wrinkle:

I recently went to [via a service@paypal.com e-mail] what I thought was a PayPal site. The security icon at the bottom of the page checked out and the SSL certificates were up to date. I surfed the site and it came up with every item I searched for and looked legit. In fact, I got this e-mail from this "PayPal" almost immediately after ordering a CD. A coincidence, I am sure...but it still is something to worry about.

Today, we noticed three charges against our account via PayPal totaling over $1200 bucks.

Long story short, between our bank and PayPal it appears two charges have been removed and the third should be refunded to us within ten days. The scary part was whoever was doing this [some guy from the UK we found out] completely hijacked my account by blocking my access and adding his own e-mail address. In fact, even as I was changing the log-on info, I was kicked off of the PayPal site.

I am telling you all this for two reasons:

#1 DO NOT open any unsolicited PayPal e-mails, period. None. Zip. Nada.

#2 Be mindful of your own e-mail boxes that may have messages coming from my e-mail address. If they can hack into my PayPal account, they surely can hack into my e-mail address book.

I am in the process of and have done so on numerous accounts [including my e-mail] changed my access information. Just a heads up: DO NOT OPEN anything with my e-mail address for the next couple weeks or so. OK?

Rest assured, I have sent nothing to anyone here and I am doing everything within my power to change any/all log-on information to stop anything further from happening.

Be ever diligent, my friends....I just dodged a bullet.

Tim

thanks, Goodspeak.

we are reading too many articles like this.

[mikelz777]

I had a Paypal scare that I thought was a scam. I had been using it successfully for years mostly for Ebay buys when one of my payment transactions was cancelled because the account was blocked. I went directly to the Paypal site and they indicated that my account was suspended because someone apparently had been trying to hack into my account. I had to re-verify my information, change my security hint questions and change my password before they would free up my account again. What alarmed me was that I never received any notification they were suspending my account and I wasn't made aware until I attempted a transaction over a month after the time when the attempted hacking occurred. Then to be asked to verify information and change my password made me very wary. It's been over a month and I've kept a careful eye on both my Paypal acct. and my bank acct. and all is still well. It just makes me more paranoid and now and I feel I have to check up on it more frequently.

[Jazzmoose]

Tim, does this mean I'm not getting the million dollars from your account in Nigeria?

[Tim McG]

Tim, does this mean I'm not getting the million dollars from your account in Nigeria?

Basically, that's it...yes.