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Paypal

PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:06 am
by steveparkes
Just wanted to warn everyone that there are some paypal thieves about. I bought a smurf on ebay on friday and on monday had my account hacked and £305 stolen from my account :banghead: :( :???:

Just letting everyone know to regularly change thier passwords and keep a close eye on thier accounts :D

PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:12 am
by Ritter_Schlumpfenherz
OMG!!!! :banghead: That totally sucks!!! :( :( :( Any chances that you might get back the money? :( :( :(

Sending big :hug:s over to you

PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:34 am
by Tojo
That is really bad news Steve :angry:

Thanks for the warning.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:43 am
by Lia
That`s a nightmare Steve :(
Could Paypal see that it was hacked and did they refund the money?

I`ve had a lot of fraudulous mails from people who wanted to hack my Paypalaccount, but luckily without success.
However, my Ebayaccount was hacked twice,once by someone from Spain, who changed the name, therefor this crazy name still can be seen in the history and worse....once by criminals in France who tried to sell a stolen car in my name:-(((((
It took a long time before all was solved.

I hope, you didn`t loose a penny!

Lia

PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:43 am
by Benny
Hi Steve,

What cheek. :mad:
I hope you get your money back! I have seen recently also a television report about them, how the hackers work and that Paypal is not totally clear, in terms such crimes. :angry:

PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:17 pm
by Smurfysmurf
That's a lot of money :shock:

Out of curiosity...did you have the money on your paypal account or did they have access to our Credit Card and/or bank account thru paypal?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:27 am
by smurfowen
who was it that you bought from, so that we know to avoid them.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:59 am
by Tintin
Hi Steve

Sorry to hear, that's a lot of money.
Hope you will get it back !!!

Tintin

PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:23 am
by XoioX2000
Sorry to hear that Steve. Any clues about how they got to your account? :shock:

PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:41 am
by steveparkes
Thanks everyone, I am happy to say I got the money refunded today. I still have no clue as to how they got into my account..It's quite scary to think that someone a million miles away from you can get into your account and take money from your bank via paypal.

Since changing the password and re-gaining control of my account I have had several 'emails' from paypal asking me to re-affirm my details..needless to say I have ignored them and sent them to fraud at paypal :???:

PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:05 am
by Ritter_Schlumpfenherz
Great to hear that you got the money refunded, Steve. :D

PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:24 pm
by Tojo
I'm really glad that you got your money back Steve :-D

What a pain in the @#*§ though!!!

PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:01 am
by steveparkes
Cheers guys..yeah it is a pain as paypal was the way I paid for smurfs :(

PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:58 pm
by Yonna
I'm so glad for you Steve!! :hug: