PayPal fraud

[fq-craigus]

Well... I got an email telling me to log into my PayPal last week and check the transactions so I did, saw nothing untoward so ignored it. Few days later got an email saying my account was restricted and I had to log in to verify ect. I have up trying to deactivate due to jumping through too many hoops and this morning got an email saying 'transaction not authorised' and to log in via a hyperlink in the email, and add another card or choose another account.

So I called PayPal and it turns out the email I got this morning wasn't from them and chances are if I had logged in using the hyperlink someone would have obtained all my details so I had lucky escape.

Turns out someone tried accessing my account from USA and china last week so PayPal restricted the acc due to unusual activity. Best guess is that they have hacked my gmail and tried my password for my email on my PayPal and struck lucky.

So a word of caution people if you use the same password for PayPal and something less secure like an email I would recommend changing it. PayPal customer service was spot on, got through on phone quick and sorted out everything on the phone

 

[DDS789]

Had a fraud on mine last year. They got into mine and sent a payment to themselves for £300 dollars and immediately refunded it, only the refund takes a few days to process by then they cleared their account and kept the money.

Got it all back through PayPal though.

Glad you got it all sorted.

 

[evo arm's m7960]

i had this and paypal asked me to forwards any more emails to them . :0)

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[Evo8Frankie]

Iv been frauded this week.... believe it or not.......... £287 the tw*ting f*ckers took.. again i had a phone call from the Llyods TSB Fraud Team, saying that i needed to block and change my account. so i did immediately.... apparently they was going to ring back with more details as to who,when, took my money....this is the second time its happened, the first was paypal, so i had to change all sorts.... but iv checked this time on paypal and there aint any transaction that i dont know about.

and so far iv not received anything back.. well as my accounts now blocked i have to wait for my new card and pin to come,

 

[evo arm's m7960]

sad time we live in :0(

hope you get your money back .


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[fq-craigus]

Yh I was asked to send the email to spoof@paypal.com

Sorry to hear Frankie, hope you get it sorted they sick fooks. I have had my card cloned 4 times in the past, that's how good HSBC is NOT!

 

[martinthegooner]

so many wayne kers on the net,so glad im crap on computers and therefor dont use them much.

 

[B6lee]

I've had a few random email from so called PayPal. Ignore ignore ignore

 

[fq-craigus]

Also the fraud ones normally address you as dear customer and PayPal address you as dear (insert customer name here) but the fraud ones now call u by your name

 

[sammii]

And this is why I don't do paypal. I just get craig 2 get my stuff with his paypal

 

[McFall1984]

its really easy to spot these fake paypal emails

never click the link in the fake paypal emails, read one of them
dear paypal customer,

thats not how paypal starts an email, these are easy scams that should be spotted

just be careful lads as its a joke how easy we can be scammed out of our money

 

[fq-craigus]

its really easy to spot these fake paypal emails

never click the link in the fake paypal emails, read one of them
dear paypal customer,

thats not how paypal starts an email, these are easy scams that should be spotted

just be careful lads as its a joke how easy we can be scammed out of our money

Usually they are easy to spot as I have spotted spam and fraud on PayPal through email before but this is addressed dear Craig Walsh as you can see below and isn't just in plain txt like normal so it's very very well done scam so just beware

 

[fq-craigus]

And PayPal have confirmed this wasn't sent from them so I have forwarded it to spoof

 

[McFall1984]

jeez that is a good copy

 

[dessimpson]

I use yahoo mail.
If you hover the mouse over who the mail came from it'll normally be some weird address like xybhgrx.com or something similar.
I then just delete the email without opening it.

 

[AbzEvo]

I get these kind of emails all the time, I just ignore them.

DONT click on any links in these sort of emails!!!

To check if its legit, type the paypal URL directly into your browser instead.

 

[lewiswm]

I always click on the link and "login" using my username (DIRTY SCAMMING CU*T) and my password (I HOPE YOU DIE IN A DITCH) and it always logs on correctly and accepts my new credit card details that I make up to waste even more of their time