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yea, ive just been robbed of 9,500 australian dollars
got this email the other day

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From: PayPal Date: Aug 27, 2006 12:20 AM Subject: Security Center - Account Informations !!! To: Dear valued PayPal� member: It has come to our attention that your PayPal� account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records on or before August 28, 2006. Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal� session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. To update your PayPal� records click on the following link: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run Thank You. PayPal� UPDATE TEAM   Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal� will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements. Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions. http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...privacy-outside

so i then fowarded it onto paypal immediately thinking this was a bit strange, they confirmed it was not them that sent it, then i get my mum to ring up the bank to put a hold on my credit card and the ******s have taken everything out of it
now i think i have to hitch hike my way from czech to malta

www.aboutpaypal.com

im confused as to whether you're being sarcastic or you really were scammed

i get these all the time

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Originally posted by chojin im confused as to whether you're being sarcastic or you really were scammed i get these all the time

no i was scammed big time
without even clickin their stupid link

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Originally posted by narcism no i was scammed big time without even clickin their stupid link

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sorry to hear that

whoa thats fucked

no way you can get the money back from Paypal or the bank?

wait isnt 9,500 Oz dollars like �10?

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Originally posted by Trance Nutter no way you can get the money back from Paypal or the bank?

well they ripped it straight off my credit card, so im hoping to god the insurance you have on your card covers fraud like this.....

hold on, just so I'm straight on this (cos I've got Paypal but hardly use it so i don't know much about it)
They've hacked your paypal account, and using that transferred the money off your credit card?

dayum, that is fucked

No recourse through Paypal?

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Originally posted by Trance Nutter hold on, just so I'm straight on this (cos I've got Paypal but hardly use it so i don't know much about it) They've hacked your paypal account, and using that transferred the money off your credit card? dayum, that is fucked No recourse through Paypal?

yes thats exactly what they done, i just am lucky they didnt touch my savings account

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Originally posted by narcism yes thats exactly what they done, i just am lucky they didnt touch my savings account

yuh, 'cept my card is linked to my savings

Luckily being a student the joke will be on them if they raid mine

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Originally posted by Trance Nutter yuh, 'cept my card is linked to my savings Luckily being a student the joke will be on them if they raid mine

think of what i could of done with that 9.5K
what a waste

oh damn!


I'm so sorry to hear about that

oh jolz

most credit cards have fraud protection on them. my paypal is tied to my bank account (one that i keep pretty much empty unless i plan on buying somethign with paypal. then the beauty part is the credit card i opened the paypal acount with has since been canceled.

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Originally posted by jdat I'm so sorry to hear about that

i wont be coming to visit u now

Did you click the link in the e-mail? How did they get your CC info?

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Originally posted by Ygrene Did you click the link in the e-mail? How did they get your CC info?

no
no idea

Well, I know that when I had my CC stolen, I wasn't held responsible for any charges that the theives racked up. My card was credited immediately and the people who lost out in that case were the retailers who accepted my card and did not use the proper underwriting techniques.

Did they just run up a bunch of charges with your Paypal account?

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Originally posted by Ygrene Did they just run up a bunch of charges with your Paypal account?

they havent touched my paypal account, they just hard my card details and bought a shit load of stuff, havent been told what it was, because its my mum whose contacted the bank and things seeing as im in the middle of know where in czech without a phone

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Originally posted by narcism

this is the confused smiley, not sad

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Originally posted by stren this is the confused smiley, not sad

yes it represents how am i going to travel around europe without money

There is a flaw in the logic here which I suspect is caused by 2 events occuring in proximity resulting in you believing they are related.

Your story implies that:

Someone broke into your paypal and emptied your account and sent you a scam e-mail at the same time from paypal. BUT if they got into your bank account already why notify you that they were messing around with it by sending you the e-mail?

More likely scenario:

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Originally posted by chojin i get these all the time

The scam e-mail was unrelated to the bank account fraud.

Or

The the people who got into your bank account sent you the e-mail in order to throw blame at paypal. Possible, but as chojin observes its a pretty generic piece of spam.

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Where did your money go exactly? It can't just dissapear, it had to have been transfered to another account. Your paypal account should have a record of all transactions... if its not there then the fraud didn't occur on their premises. If not there, then your CC should have a record of where the purchase was.

im thinking you might have been scammed in some other way. This just occurred at teh sametime. I get the exact same email all the time.


so look where the charges were made, maybe you got had by a scammer store in czech.

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