Pay / Pal Scam

[marsh man]

During the last week I got a Email from what I thought was Pay Pal asking me to update my agreement , having logged on , everything looked normal , there was a set of questions asking me to confirm my name , d o b and address , clicked on to the next page to give my card details , and this is where I got a mental blockage and gave them all they asked , job done ............ or so I thought.

 

Last night at around 11pm I got a call from my bank asking me if I had tried to withdraw £174 during the day on my card , no I haven't , the lady said they had blocked the payment and luckily I didn't lose anything ,

 

I got in touch with p / p security who stopped any transaction and arranged a new pass word and said they would never asked for my personal details without going through there security checks.

 

Although I didn't lose any money I felt gutted I fell into there trap and like a idiot gave the scum a open cheque book. ............ PLEASE BE CAREFUL.

[Dano0404]

Got the same email on two different email accounts.

 

Always check the email address it's from, also the grammar.

[rimfire4969]

Glad you did not lose anything.

 

Never click a link from an email from your bank, PayPal etc. If you receive an email from them, close it and just go through their normal website anything they need will be asked there.

[bruno22rf]

As rimfire4969 says NEVER click on a provided link in an Email if they are asking for details, google the company and open your account - if the message is genuine it will be there.

[phaedra1106]

Had my Paypal account hacked twice, both times for around £5000, luckily (?) I had nowhere near that in the bank so they bounced the payments. Got in touch with Paypal who at first were less than helpful, after I explained that the purchase was for some very high quality drones to be shipped from a German seller to a predominately "minorities" tenement area of South West Paris and that I'd informed Counter Terrorism (who were aware of the area) they became more helpful and I got a refund for my negative balance.

 

Second time was a similar thing, high value electronics shipping from Germany to the same area, this time it turned out that whoever did the security check on my account the first time forgot to clear a load of automated logins (which I never ever use). They shouldn't have worked as I'd changed my password, IP address and added the "send a 6 digit text" option to the account so you can't even login without entering the code they text to your mobile as well as your name and password. Got that one refunded but still waiting for another fight with the bank to get any bank charges back for bouncing the payment attempt.

[Vince Green]

I clicked on one from Santander 'allegedly' informing me of changes to my T&Cs and my firewall went ballistic and locked the laptop down. Phoned my man who does the computer stuff and he said to switch it off and leave it off.

 

It turned out to be some really aggressive virus which if the firewall hadn't trapped it I wouldn't probably even know I had in there.

 

He also said the trick is now to just put a small transaction through for £2 or so every month from your account which you are not likely to query but the payment is generated from your own computer by the virus.

Edited November 4, 2016 by Vince Green

[B25Modelman]

NEVER click on any email links. ALWAYS Log In through the correct web site to check...99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time it's a con.

[marsh man]

THANKS for the all the above advice and very much appreciated ,

 

I was very impressed how helpful my bank was ( Sandanter ) , as a complete novice on internet banking they talked me through what I had to do in a calm manner and assured me everything was safe while I was shaking like a leaf on the other end . Well done to them .

[hawkfanz]

have had loads of these fisching emails always forwward them on to spoof@paypal.com let them deal with it also if the email is in your box before you do anything login to your ebay/paypal account if the message is genuine from paypal there will be a copy of it in there,if it isnt in there its a scam.

[daveboy]

The wife works in a bank and gets this everyday.

Last week an old lady came in to say she had to transfer £7000 to talk talk or a man in morroco would get the sack.

She had given them all her bank details and allowed them to take over her computer.

They had paid her £200 compensation into her account and then told her they had paid £7200 into her account by mistake.

Sure enough when she checked £7200 had been paid into her account and they wanted £7000 paying back (by money transfer)

or the poor bloke in Morroco would get the sack..

When the wife queried it and looked at the old ladies account the bloke in morroco had applied online for a loan from the bank for £7200

and this is what had been paid into her account.

It took the wife an hour to convince the woman it was a scam.

The old lady just kept saying "but I don't want to get the nice young man the sack,He has a wife and kids"

Total Scum.

[Dougy]

I got one too, I would have completed it, but don't have a PP account.

[Davyo]

The trick with pp is to have a bank account purley for pp transactions.I never put anything in it untill im about to make a purchase.Same as when i receive monies its trans from pp to that account but then i transfer it to my main account.

Only one accoun linked to pp.

[Walker570]

SIMPLE I do not use pay pal. Rip off merchants.

[The Heron]

Pay pal untrustworthy ebay where you can buy somebody else,s over priced damaged or fake **** and all the rest of these **** sites that are not worth a ****, deal with reputable company if it seems to good to be true it usually is.

[Vince Green]

Deal with a reputable company? paypal is the biggest bank in the world, that just shows you the power of the internet

Edited November 5, 2016 by Vince Green

[Savhmr]

The answer is simple. Don't open links on emails and you wont get scammed. Log onto Paypal's official site. They have plenty of information on what to do to keep your account safe. As for rip-off merchants, well I run a business and use Paypal because it's no worse than the bank's business charges for transactions (you have to account for it in your own charges...that's the cost of using it) and allows a safe buffer between bank accounts and paypal's site via encryption. It's as safe as anything else.

 

The unsafe part and where most people get scammed is both with their own PC security and with opening suspect emails. Never action a request through an email link. Most reputable organisations won't now ask for any details via email for this reason. Scammers will.

Edited November 5, 2016 by Savhmr