PayPal Hack

[bybill]

Hi,

I realize that I hardly ever post anything but I think this is something you should be aware of. Today I received an email from PayPal and it was legit except that it was on servers in China. I went to PayPal and found out they thought my name Lee Tom and I had a Chinese address and phone #. The PayPal site would not let me change anything except my password which I did. All the PayPal contact info was in China.

I was able to locate a PayPal phone # in the US using Google. They were very helpful except I didn't buy their explanation as to why or how it happened. I use a Yahoo email account for PayPal and they said that Yahoo must have recycled the email address. I think this is a bunch of bull.

I was lucky in that the card info in my PayPal account was not up to date as it had been changed by the bank because of another data breach somewhere.

PayPal was able to walk me through deleating my account so I guess everything is OK now

 

[Crickett]

Glad to hear everything ended on a satisfactory note.

 

[Akula]

seems it goes in cycles...last couple days I have several people report paypal accounts hacked and charges on them

guess it's always best to not have them linked to a bank account to be safe

I have never had any problems

 

[frank123]

I get this stuff frequently, just forward it to "security@Paypal (Or Ebay),com". Same with that stuff from other well known companies that seem to have sent you an e-mail asking for something in relation to your account as one of their customers whether you are or aren't.

If you ever receive an e-mail form PayPal or Ebay that you weren't actually expecting (as in a completed transaction receipt) go to your account and see if it is also there.

Anything sent to you officially from them is also accessible from your account.

Some of these fishing e-mails are very convincing and make it look very official, but they have a link to respond to that will accept your password but do nothing else (that's how they get your password). If you ever get tricked by one and find it doesn't do anything but take your password, don't assume that is a malfunction on PayPal or Ebay -it isn't- go immediately to your real account and change the password before you get hit.

Most browsers will also show you where that link actually is directed if you hover the mouse pointer over it without clicking and look at the address it is directing to.

Ebay seems lately to be getting used for fishing by the fisherman posing as another Ebay member asking a question in an official message to you. Anyone with any knoweledge of e-mail addressing headers can make it look like the e-mail came from wherever they want it to.

 

[randyrls]

If you ever receive an e-mail form PayPal or Ebay that you weren't actually expecting (as in a completed transaction receipt) go to your account and see if it is also there.

Frank; I'm pretty sure you know this already, but this is for other people's information. NEVER CLICK ON ANY LINK IN AN EMAIL. Even if you have an account. Instead, close your email program, close and reopen your browser, and then manually type the name of the site into the address bar. Make sure the web site opens up to the site you are expecting. Read it carefully.