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By *issHottieBottie OP Woman
over a year ago

Kent

Someone just tried to scam £187 out of my PayPal!

Luckily I checked my emails and managed to cancel the transaction before it went to my bank..

Gotta change all my passwords now!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Someone just tried to scam £187 out of my PayPal!

Luckily I checked my emails and managed to cancel the transaction before it went to my bank..

Gotta change all my passwords now!

I hope that was a real PayPal message.

Don't forget real PayPal messages address you by your real name.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Crikey I always thought Pp was completely secure...ill be more watchful now!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How do you they scam your paypal?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

could that have been a scam email informing you of that to try and get you to then change all your details?

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By *issHottieBottie OP Woman
over a year ago

Kent

"Someone just tried to scam £187 out of my PayPal!

Luckily I checked my emails and managed to cancel the transaction before it went to my bank..

Gotta change all my passwords now!

I hope that was a real PayPal message.

Don't forget real PayPal messages address you by your real name."

Yes It was. And only took me logging into my account to see the transaction on the recent activity.

Just been on the phone to them too.

I had a blatent fake PayPal email a couple of days ago, it was so bad it was laughable!

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By *issHottieBottie OP Woman
over a year ago

Kent

"How do you they scam your paypal?

Because they find out your email and password and see emails from PayPal so they know you have an account so they log in and send themselves a payment from your account to theirs!

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By *0hnnyBrav0Man
over a year ago

Great Wyrley

Similar happened to me a couple of years ago.

the money was paid to a website in ireland.

just as the payment email came through as I was sat at the computer the landline rang. It was paypal ringing to tell me they had blocked my payment to a suspicious site.

up to that point I was unsure of paypal. When I saw first hand how quick they reacted they instilled my confidence.

as it was, I managed to track down the details of the website persons. Strangely enough when they got personal emails off me they were unimpressed I was able to find out who they were ha ha.

its the internet. Anything is possible

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By *issHottieBottie OP Woman
over a year ago

Kent

"Crikey I always thought Pp was completely secure...ill be more watchful now!

Just use a different password for your PayPal than anything else x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Someone just tried to scam £187 out of my PayPal!

Luckily I checked my emails and managed to cancel the transaction before it went to my bank..

Gotta change all my passwords now!

I hope that was a real PayPal message.

Don't forget real PayPal messages address you by your real name.

Yes It was. And only took me logging into my account to see the transaction on the recent activity.

Just been on the phone to them too.

I had a blatent fake PayPal email a couple of days ago, it was so bad it was laughable! "

I had a BT one recently about a cancelled DD. That's new on me.

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By *issHottieBottie OP Woman
over a year ago

Kent

"could that have been a scam email informing you of that to try and get you to then change all your details?"

No I had one of those a couple of days ago. Was very obviously fake I just deleted it x

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"Crikey I always thought Pp was completely secure...ill be more watchful now!

Just use a different password for your PayPal than anything else x"

Am gonna change mine!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scary stuff knowing someone can find out your email address and your password!! I don't use paypal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Someone just tried to scam £187 out of my PayPal!

Luckily I checked my emails and managed to cancel the transaction before it went to my bank..

Gotta change all my passwords now!

I hope that was a real PayPal message.

Don't forget real PayPal messages address you by your real name.

Yes It was. And only took me logging into my account to see the transaction on the recent activity.

Just been on the phone to them too.

I had a blatent fake PayPal email a couple of days ago, it was so bad it was laughable! "

I had a laughable one, pretending to be my bank, insisting I enter all my details for security reasons. What's scary, is the fact that some people fall for this.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Someone had a tattoo courtesy of my credit card

Hoooow stupid can you be

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a message supposedly from Paypal asking me to follow a link and to verify my password.

Yeah right.

Paypal is secure. They would not ask you to go to their site via a link from an email.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We had our AOL email hacked, don't know how but they did. Living in France we transfer cash from UK & loads of internet banking. They managed to get 2x£1.60 payments & £49.95 payment! All retrieved, but now very wary. We changed ALL passwords, and do so each month! Also include in the pw a &%?@ symbol which makes it harder to crack. Hope this helps.

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By *issHottieBottie OP Woman
over a year ago

Kent

"We had our AOL email hacked, don't know how but they did. Living in France we transfer cash from UK & loads of internet banking. They managed to get 2x£1.60 payments & £49.95 payment! All retrieved, but now very wary. We changed ALL passwords, and do so each month! Also include in the pw a &%?@ symbol which makes it harder to crack. Hope this helps."

Thanks for the tip!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My Debit Card was cloned a few years back and they set up a standing order from my current account for £39.99 a month.

They took nearly £800 before I spotted it.

I'm embarrassed that I didn't miss this money going out every month.

I'm careful now where I use my cards

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By *tupidityDictatesWoman
over a year ago

Hertfordshire

I was ripped off by a customer via paypal so no longer use it.

They paid £170 for an item, the item was made and then hand delivered to them (I had withdrawn the money by this point), by the time I got back home I had emails saying the buyer had reported it as a fraudulent transaction, I spent a month protesting it and then they took all the money from my bank and gave it to the buyer. I even sent them emails between me and the customer about delivering it etc but they sided with the buyer.

So I was £170 out of pocket plus the fuel for the 220 mile round trip to deliver it and my time.

Never again will I use paypal.

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By *issHottieBottie OP Woman
over a year ago

Kent

"I was ripped off by a customer via paypal so no longer use it.

So I was £170 out of pocket plus the fuel for the 220 mile round trip to deliver it and my time.

Never again will I use paypal."

A friend of mine sold a baby monitor on eBay, payment by PayPal, then the buyer got photos of a dodgy old baby monitor and complained that it was the one she had been sent! She ended up

With a refund and never sent the monitor back!

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By *issHottieBottie OP Woman
over a year ago

Kent

So apparently it wasn't as cancelled as I was told. The instruction had already gone through to my bank so I've just had my tesco shop cancelled due to insufficient funds checked my online bank and I've got £6 in there.

Rang PayPal and they said even though I stopped the guy from getting it it was too late to stop the direct debit from my bank (unless I had cancelled it at the bank end which I would of done if someone had told me that was the case!) so now I've gotta wait for then to reverse it which could take a few days!!

And to add insult to injury netflix sent me an email to go back to them and enjoy another free month so I did. And they've charged me the £5.99!! Just got off the phone to them and they said that I should never of gotten that email and they don't know how it was sent out.

I said I don't give a toss just refund me my 5.99!!!

Anyway I've got 7p in my purse if anyone wants it gimme a shout apparently I'm not meant to have any money!

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"So apparently it wasn't as cancelled as I was told. The instruction had already gone through to my bank so I've just had my tesco shop cancelled due to insufficient funds checked my online bank and I've got £6 in there.

I said I don't give a toss just refund me my 5.99!!!

Anyway I've got 7p in my purse if anyone wants it gimme a shout apparently I'm not meant to have any money!

That's awful for you.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i get those paypal emails all the time. the first shit me up abit but i just made sure to log in to paypal directly and not from the links provided in the emails

the transactions never show in my pp account so i know its bollox

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By *issHottieBottie OP Woman
over a year ago

Kent

"i get those paypal emails all the time. the first shit me up abit but i just made sure to log in to paypal directly and not from the links provided in the emails

the transactions never show in my pp account so i know its bollox

I've had those before 2. Unfortunately this one was very real!!!

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over a year ago

"i get those paypal emails all the time. the first shit me up abit but i just made sure to log in to paypal directly and not from the links provided in the emails

the transactions never show in my pp account so i know its bollox

I've had those before 2. Unfortunately this one was very real!!! "

i`d like to know how they get ur details. ive been lucky and never been scammed online but i was always careful

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I was abroad this perfume shop I was buying from said the machine we'rnt working and took my card into another room to take payment within weeks I had a charge from united airlines of $1200 on my credit card I told then the story and got it squashed but unbelievable some people and I am not as guilable no more

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By *issHottieBottie OP Woman
over a year ago

Kent

"i get those paypal emails all the time. the first shit me up abit but i just made sure to log in to paypal directly and not from the links provided in the emails

the transactions never show in my pp account so i know its bollox

I've had those before 2. Unfortunately this one was very real!!!

i`d like to know how they get ur details. ive been lucky and never been scammed online but i was always careful"

Apparently it's email hackers, they get into your email and know your email password, then they see emails from paypal and just try to login to your paypal using the same password. Then they send money from your PayPal to theirs and presto!

You shouldn't ever have a problem if you use a totally different email for your paypal to anything else which I always did then I set up a new email addy a while back and used the same one without thinking about it. Needless to say it's been changed now x

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By *exycleanerWoman
over a year ago

pontefract

never had a problem with pay pal as i not use it ,ive no need i not go onto ebay never mind buy from it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hottie that's really bad!!

PayPal should have adviced you to contact your bank when they first knew there was a problem! Hope you get it sorted out quickly xx

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By *issHottieBottie OP Woman
over a year ago

Kent

"never had a problem with pay pal as i not use it ,ive no need i not go onto ebay never mind buy from it

I'm an eBay junkie.

But as far as PayPal were aware I was just logging into my account and making a payment, because they'd logged in using my email and password it just looked like an ordinary transaction.

Just checked the resolution centre and it says they've contacted the recipient with details of the transaction for more information and if it gets found in my favour I will get my money back. At some point!! If it doesn't get found in my favour I will be closing my paypal account down!!

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By *issHottieBottie OP Woman
over a year ago

Kent

"Hottie that's really bad!!

PayPal should have adviced you to contact your bank when they first knew there was a problem! Hope you get it sorted out quickly xx"

Yes they should of!! But no one did

had I known that I would of just contacted my bank straight away and they would never of been able to take the payment!!! My head is pounding from the stress!

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