Fraud on my PayPal account

muffinmclean

Hiya,

I received an email today from paypal saying a payment for £343 has been sent to Abercrombie and fitch then another email from hollister thanking for order and it is pending.
I have had emails from PayPal before but it is a spam email, not the real thing. But what made me not just ignore this is that it said my PayPal username on the email from PayPal, not just PayPal user

So I checked on my PayPal, and sure enough there was a pending transaction for £343.

Immediately called PayPal and it has been cancelled and passed onto fraud team, and have now changed password etc but thankfully it got caught in time.

The address it was being sent to was on Waterloo road, London . I live in Scotland!

So assuming it has been someone down there, how on earth did they get my sign in and password details?

Anyway, point of this is to tell people keep an eye on PayPal or your banking for anything untoward as that is a lot of money to have taken out your account without knowing it!

I HATE THIEVES! Worst part is I'll never find out who did this grrrrr

custardy

muffinmclean wrote: »

Hiya,

I received an email today from paypal saying a payment for £343 has been sent to Abercrombie and fitch then another email from hollister thanking for order and it is pending.
I have had emails from PayPal before but it is a spam email, not the real thing. But what made me not just ignore this is that it said my PayPal username on the email from PayPal, not just PayPal user

So I checked on my PayPal, and sure enough there was a pending transaction for £343.

Immediately called PayPal and it has been cancelled and passed onto fraud team, and have now changed password etc but thankfully it got caught in time.

The address it was being sent to was on Waterloo road, London . I live in Scotland!

So assuming it has been someone down there, how on earth did they get my sign in and password details?

Anyway, point of this is to tell people keep an eye on PayPal or your banking for anything untoward as that is a lot of money to have taken out your account without knowing it!

I HATE THIEVES! Worst part is I'll never find out who did this grrrrr

most likely your own PC security

muffinmclean

Thanks for reply. I am a total thicko with computers so please bare with me, but why would they choose to hack into my pc up here? Like, what would make them pick my pc out the blue? I'll need to get husband to do a scan/virus check thing

custardy

muffinmclean wrote: »

Thanks for reply. I am a total thicko with computers so please bare with me, but why would they choose to hack into my pc up here? Like, what would make them pick my pc out the blue? I'll need to get husband to do a scan/virus check thing

malware etc works on mass bombing
its not some guy looking for one PC. its like scammers
they mass email in the 000's in the hope of one hit
pop over to the tech board.
theres stickies on PC clean up/security