Damn Pay Pal, Spoofed!

rodney eppes

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I Was, having a nice day, until I got in around noon. There was an email notice from Pay Pal, showing my payment to a Rehleh Travel Agency, in EUR. O No I didn't, I must have been hacked! so, on the same mail, I go to the Resolution Center. It opens, shows a temporary hold & I need to confirm my Security settings. I'm thinking, Yea they stopped this hack, & I need to check in with them. So I go through the form, name, address, Card # [I used a CC] /number/exp/ & security code. SS #, mothers maiden name. Continue. This charge is not showing. Invoice or nothing to be found? I'm still searching various things, & one comes up, "Report Spoofing". O Shit! Can't even reset my password. Every contact method I try with PP [the Real one, I'm still dealing with thers damn computer generated answers. FAQ! About 45 minutes, I Finally get it to give up a telephone #. After this & that, I get to a Foreign speaking woman, that I can 1/2 understand. They will watch my account, but don't expect any activity there. My card is cancelled, both with them & the carrier. Dropped by my Bank too, & they feel I'm covered fairly well, but recommended a IRS PIN # for my taxes. Verified that with my Tax man, then spent 40 minutes on-line, getting a PIN #.
Here's one of the things I missed: When Pay Pal mails you, the letter/mail, start with Your Name. The Spoof started with, "Hello". And the mail address is a little funky. But all I noticed was [service@ paypal.com] & the Big blue PayPal logo. What a Bitch. My Credit Reports with the big 3, have been frozen for a few years. Just hoping I don't somehow get into ID Theft. Screwed my Day!
 
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I had a netflix email, stating my account was on hold, that tried to extract payment from my paypal account. I went to my paypal and checked the date the payment came out for the last few months. Then to netflix to see if it was working. They were several days off from when the payment was supposed to come out and my netflix worked fine.

I emailed them back. "nice try asshole"
 
Bigger watch if you used same password anywhere else that’s what they are after
 
tknopp said:
Yeah its a constant game of cat and mouse with these scammers. I already have 150 blocked numbers in my phone from them calling. They never give up.
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And they don’t even use hose numbers that just false display then
 
I got an email from Navy Federal Credit Union yesterday, a notice that there had been a large scale hack and they were putting accounts on hold. Click here to login to your account verify your settings etc.

Well... I don't have a NFCU account ;-). However it was very authentic looking, and when you clicked the link, it went to a page that in every way looked identical to the matching NFCU site, even all of the links in the upper corner went to bona fide NFCU domain places - except if you looked very closely, teh root domain of that site was something else. Basically they made an exact copy of the entire site.
Very sneaky.
 
My paypal got hacked. $253 from my credit card. Thank goodness captial one took care of it and refunded the charge. I removed all of my accounts from my paypal account. :kaioken:
 
grapehead said:
Any serious looking email like that I'll pull up on a desktop instead of the phone. With a simple mouse hover, you can tell if the URL is legit or a spoof/scam. Not worth the risk.
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I do mail, NC4x4, FB, & other business, on the ol PC. Too hard to see & work such on cell phones, for me. And when driving &/or at work, I get text & calls, enough, without any other distractions.
 
grapehead said:
Any serious looking email like that I'll pull up on a desktop instead of the phone. With a simple mouse hover, you can tell if the URL is legit or a spoof/scam. Not worth the risk.
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Also, typically if you hit reply all, you can see the actual addresses too. Plain text FTW.
 
Don’t ever click on a link in any email sent to you. Ever. Go directly to the account through a new window open and type the address in manually or go through their app. Way too many phishing scams out there to take the chance. I get them all the time and just delete, don’t even open them.
 
rockcity said:
Don’t ever click on a link in any email sent to you. Ever. Go directly to the account through a new window open and type the address in manually or go through their app. Way too many phishing scams out there to take the chance. I get them all the time and just delete, don’t even open them.
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But somebody you've never heard of is trying to send you a secure email! You just need to click here to download it.
 
rockcity said:
Don’t ever click on a link in any email sent to you. Ever. Go directly to the account through a new window open and type the address in manually or go through their app. Way too many phishing scams out there to take the chance. I get them all the time and just delete, don’t even open them.
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I learned this long ago. Never click links in stuff that's sent to you. I always open a new window and log in that way. The hard part is trying to educate my mom and my wife to do the same.
 
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