Paypal Ripoff

[StrayRogue]

My housemate recently had a problem with his MSN account. Basically he couldn't get online due to his "password being changed", which he hadn't done. This was like this for about a day, then seemingly rectified itself.

Only today has he realized that there has been a £700 withdrawl on his paypal account. The withdrawl occured on the exact day of his MSN being fucked up.

Any idea's as to what could have happened (Obviously his password has been hacked, but how), and what he could possibly do?

[xShadowMerchantx]

Depends on where the withdraw came from. If it was a credit card, contact the company and tell them about the fraudulant withdraw. If it was from a bank account, I would try the bank it came from.

I'd also call Paypal and see what they have to say about it. They've actually got a # to call now... unlike the past where you couldn't find any way to contact them, except via unhelpful email.

[Syberus]

Someone tried to hack my roomates paypal acount too, but he caught it, and found out they lived in like romania or some shit when they forget to change their address back after trying to use his Ebay account.

[Brimz]

Its a long process.... but go to paypal.com and see where the withdrawal was from sometimes it tells you

to so and so from this bank and what bank it is...

and if it was a check withdrawal... yah you would have to call paypal.com i'm sure they have a log of the address that was previously the changed address if someone hacked it... and tried to pull a fast one...

But be prepared for a long prcoess of waiting and having to answer a bunch of stupid questions...

I worked at a bank before and good lord... if there was fraudulent activity so much stupid paperwork needs to be done...

advidavit this advidavit that...

But if there is the [hackers] bank information call them on their end tell them theres fraudulent activity then call paypal and give them the information would be 10x faster..

Brim

[Tsa`ah]

Tell your friend not to use the same password for multiple accounts.

[Edited on 8-2-2004 by Tsa`ah]

[Hulkein]

Yeah, I have a different password for anything that involves money, while I have another for AIM, then yet another easier one for forums and stuff.

[Blazing247]

Losing money sucks. Just the other day, Blockbuster decided they would withdraw $4.50 from my bank account. Not sure why, or how they did it, but I was pissed cause I haven't rented a movie from them in six months.

[Prestius]

Originally posted by StrayRogue
My housemate recently had a problem with his MSN account. Basically he couldn't get online due to his "password being changed", which he hadn't done. This was like this for about a day, then seemingly rectified itself.

Only today has he realized that there has been a £700 withdrawl on his paypal account. The withdrawl occured on the exact day of his MSN being fucked up.

Any idea's as to what could have happened (Obviously his password has been hacked, but how), and what he could possibly do?

Sounds to me like the title of this thread should be "Roommate Suckered by Phisher".

That e-mail he got? The one where it told him that his account was messed up, please change it? It was a scam. He *GAVE* them his password, and because PayPal uses e-mail address and most people use the same PW for their e-mail account and paypal his account was breached.

Two things: First off, no reputable company will EVER NEVER EVER ask you to change things via e-mail. See https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/email-security-outside It's about paypal, but it applies to anything e-mail/online account


Second, contact Paypal and let them know what happened. This is a very common scam that happens a LOT.

Finally .. anytime you get one of these e-mails asking for a change like that, forward the e-mail to the service it's targeting. I know Paypal and E-Bay both have a SPOOF@PAYPAL.COM and SPOOF@EBAY.COM address for these phish mails. The more and faster they get sent in the faster the scam site gets shut down.

-P