I've brought a phone of ebay but...

me1234567

Hi all,

Well i brought a phone of ebay looked all well it says its in doncaster won the phone for a total of £100, i payed via paypal. I recived confirmation that my payment was made then another email to say my account has been limited as i need to check my security questions. But now the werider thing is that i have recived 2 emails from somthing called G network (china) limited saying that i have recived payment from myself.

I hope you can understand what i have written its all very wierd and im not sure not that its ligite and i dont want to be scammed?

I hope someone can help?

Thanks
Lin

shellsuit

What's the ebay item number of the transaction?

me1234567

Hi
Thanks for the reply i went onto my paypal which i had to confirm all my details, change my security questions and password. After all that they had put a hold on my account. The phone was payed for but there was another transaction the one i mentioned above (G network china) for £145.00 then converted into usd. The payment hadn't been accepted as of then so i was straight onto the phone to paypal who said they knew my account had been hacked because i only ever use my account from 1 computer so the put a hold on my account. So the payment has been cancelled but they said the money could still leave my account (it wont because there isnt enough money in there to pay it) but it would be back in there within 48 hours. So now i just have to wait and see what happens.

The thing is that if i used my account from lots of pcs then they may not have noticed and i would have had a lot more problems as i couldn't afford to loose £145. I hardly ever use my paypal account and think i may actually close it after all this.
Thankfully the phone i brought for my daughter is all legal. Just got to wait and see what happens now and hope its all all right now

Sorry for essay but was really panicking

macfly

You should still be panicking. Your paypal account has been hacked. How? If someone has managed to get your log in details once, you have a problem.

me1234567

Hi, I don't no much about pcs but i have norton 360 installed and according to that im all protected... Maybe im not, i dont know what i should do to stop this as im not very good with pcs i thought that that was supposed to stop it all. beens as i pay for it maybe its not that good. Does anyone have any tips?

Thanks

shellsuit

me1234567 wrote: »

Hi all,

Well i brought a phone of ebay looked all well it says its in doncaster won the phone for a total of £100, i payed via paypal. I recived confirmation that my payment was made then another email to say my account has been limited as i need to check my security questions. But now the werider thing is that i have recived 2 emails from somthing called G network (china) limited saying that i have recived payment from myself.

I hope you can understand what i have written its all very wierd and im not sure not that its ligite and i dont want to be scammed?

I hope someone can help?

Thanks
Lin

Who did this email come from?

You did buy the phone through eBay didn't you?

me1234567 wrote: »

Hi
Thanks for the reply i went onto my paypal which i had to confirm all my details, change my security questions and password. After all that they had put a hold on my account. The phone was payed for but there was another transaction the one i mentioned above (G network china) for £145.00 then converted into usd. The payment hadn't been accepted as of then so i was straight onto the phone to paypal who said they knew my account had been hacked because i only ever use my account from 1 computer so the put a hold on my account. So the payment has been cancelled but they said the money could still leave my account (it wont because there isnt enough money in there to pay it) but it would be back in there within 48 hours. So now i just have to wait and see what happens.

The thing is that if i used my account from lots of pcs then they may not have noticed and i would have had a lot more problems as i couldn't afford to loose £145. I hardly ever use my paypal account and think i may actually close it after all this.
Thankfully the phone i brought for my daughter is all legal. Just got to wait and see what happens now and hope its all all right now

Sorry for essay but was really panicking

Did you go onto the Paypal site, log in and do this, or did you receive an email telling you to??

soolin

me1234567 wrote: »

Hi, I don't no much about pcs but i have norton 360 installed and according to that im all protected... Maybe im not, i dont know what i should do to stop this as im not very good with pcs i thought that that was supposed to stop it all. beens as i pay for it maybe its not that good. Does anyone have any tips?

Thanks

Norton will not protect you against a phishing scam if you have clicked any links or given away your info voluntarily.

terra_ferma

It is a bit of a myth that someone will hack your account by sending you a virus/trojan etc, I'm sure it happens but it's much easier to send an email with a fake link taking you to a website that looks like the real one, so that you give them your log in details yourself.

Norton will not stop you from clicking a link and entering you log in details

arriva

there is a bit of mis-information regarding the infallibility of antivirus software here.

A Crypter is a professional tool hackers use to make a malicious software FUD (Fully Un-Detectable - to antivirus) disguising the apperance of the file.
Antivirus companies normally catch-up after a short time and they release a patch in the form of a virus database update so your antivirus can detect the "disguise". After this a new crypter is needed and so on...
The antivirus needs to able to detect the "disguise", not the virus. The virus is probably classic stuff tested and known to be working, the crucial part is to make your system "accept" the trojan. To do this we "dress" it nicely and once it is in at this point your antivirus is useless as most of "functions" of modern trojans are undetected by antivirus (you can scan, re-scan... and re-scan... you will only find the empty shell of the trojan but deleting it won't stop the "service" it has started on your computer).

A good crypter is expected to be FUD for at least a few days after its release but you never know, it can last one minute or one month. Within this period (especially if you didn't update) you are unprotected even if you downloaded the last antivirus update.

On the positive side Crypters are not freely available from the internet, they are made by people who wants to be paid for the job and this luckily stops the hordes of 14 years old wannabe hackers downloading crypters and spreading infections.


The stealing of ebay/paypal logins doesn't need a trojan or a virus, these are for internet banking or other stuff.
Stealing paypal or ebay login details can be a clean job and much easier than what you'd expect (a breeze, believe me), luckily it is also easy to prevent taking a few precautions.
For obvious reasons I am not going into details here, if someone is interested I can post a simple how-to to protect yourself at 99% if it hasn't already been posted by someone else (by the comments I read every week here it is either well hidden or written in another language ).

mobile48

arriva wrote: »

luckily it is also easy to prevent taking a few precautions.

What are the precautions?

arriva

I think I will start a new thread for this. will link to it when up.