i know a lot of people on here use pay pal so i figured i would give yall a heads up. somehow my pay pal account was hacked and $955.32 was sent to a julie white with a julieebayn@googlemail.com e-mail address. it was sent in british currency, so 500 their money was $955 american. im trying to get everything straightened out. pay pal noticed it was accessed by a third party and is holding the funds, so pay pal and my bank are investigating it. so if i were yall i would change your password and security questions. dont sit there and say "it wont happen to me", cuz it will. better safe than sorry. so change yo ****.

 

my password is very hard, noone could figure it out.

 

Alpha-numeric and case sensitive here. Broke *** bank account too, just be a really pissed off thief.

 

+1.
I have a separate account at a separate bank for my Paypal account, and it is usually empty.

 

+2,,,,,

 

wow, thats a good idea to have a seperate account and only put money in it when you want to buy something. i will probably do that.

 

+1 haha. That money gets deposited to my account, its going to used towards overdraft fees.

really pissed off thief.

 

the amount of money stolen from my account would cover the paypal transferring fee so + 2, pissssssed off thief lol.

 

I made a paypal transfer yesterday for 524.00 and they called me within 10 minutes of the transaction to confirm it was me. I was actually very impressed. Sorry to hear that someone was able to get one over, I know your bank and paypal will protect you, but thanks for letting everyone know. Better safe than sorry

 

You guys have me worried/scared right now. After all of these years trying to avoid using Paypal, I finally broke down and started an account and am buying little things left and right for the car.

 

Just do what I did man. Create a separate account at a different bank and keep it empty and just transfer money to it when you wanna buy something.

 

What ever you do, dont click on a "Paypal" link from your emails. Just open a new window and go to the site from there.

 

Thats what I have. I don't keep much in my Paypal account or that bank account.

 

hey Eddie, i'm hacking your **** right now... LS7 on the way!

 

true dat true dat

 

Sorry for my naiveness on that, like I said, I've only been using ebay for about 2 or 3 weeks now but need to be educated on why and why not about the clicking on email/site. *shrugging*

 

Fake links to an identical page could be in the link that contains a key logger.

That'll record your every keystroke, like say.. your username and password

 

My paypal has been hacked before and password changed. Guy stole a bunch of money. Got everything back easily with paypal's help

 

Your calculation is off somewhere. 500 EUR is 733.80 USD. 955 USD is 650.72 EUR.

 

well its in british pounds not euros.