Paypal Account hacked.

barnet_lady

My paypal account has been hacked into and someone has tried to take $1000 out (luckily paypal stopped it).

On speaking to them, they told me it had generated from a spoof website.
I'm pretty careful when it comes to giving out my details and opening strange emails, so am now concerned that there is spyware on my computer.

Any tips and advice on where to go from here would be great.
Many thanks

Paulos77

This happend to me about this time last year. Someone called medez or somthing tried to take over $1000 out of my account. I have no idea how they got my password because I am always carefull about dodgy looking sites and fishing emails.

Luckily paypal rang me at work to tell me someone was trying to withdraw $1000 which is good of them actually.

I was thinking someone might have been using a keylogger and recording my typing.

Anyways since them I always make sure I have firewalls and spyware removers like ad-aware. Also theres a program you can get for free which scrambles all login and passwords when you type them. (It shows random numbers and letters when you type) I cant think of what it is called now as I'm at work but once I remember I'll let you know

tukki-tukki

spybot search and destroy is free and will get rid of any nasty bugs

Conor_3

Your account doesn't have to be hacked for someone to make a charge against it. They merely need an e-mail address which they can find automatically just by generating ones until they get a hit. Usually people who use a free e-mail account (gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc) as the email account for their Paypal are the likeliest to be hit.

Paypal are very good at spotting these fraudulent attempts on the whole.