Warning to all PayPal users!

nicstt

This thread serves as a great reminder that responsibility for our cash (and our families) lies with ourselves.

Subtropic Pixel

Pixolygon said:

Wonderland said:

Pixolygon said:

Out of sheer curiousity, if this was a phone call, how did you type anything back to him?

On my iPhone. Actually I think I read back the code they sent (texted) me. The whole thing was very confusing. They said specific places where I was hacked (Dayton Ohio, Ontario Canada..) and said I had subdribed to a dating app that I hadn’t. They were very believable and had my email, home address, PayPal balance, payments, everything. Still freaked out about all this. 

 

Where did you obtain their phone number from? I have someone on my twitter who just posted earlier today about googling for Paypal's number and the first result not actually being Paypal, but a scam number.

^ This is what really happened, I'm sure of it.

There's NO WAY a scammer can cut off an in-flight phone call and call you back, supplanting themselves over a legitimate person.

I have Paypal, and I'm NOT going to stop using it.  It is too hard-wired into my life right now.  Canceling it just based on a fearful post on a forum would be an overreaction.  If anybody is worried, then change your Paypal password, and you could change your DAZ and email passwords too, while you're at it. 

But please don't go crazy and start canceling all of the conveniences that your modern life has to offer.  Unless you're planning to move to Ohio and join an Amish community, that is.

nicstt

Subtropic Pixel said:

Pixolygon said:

Wonderland said:

Pixolygon said:

Out of sheer curiousity, if this was a phone call, how did you type anything back to him?

On my iPhone. Actually I think I read back the code they sent (texted) me. The whole thing was very confusing. They said specific places where I was hacked (Dayton Ohio, Ontario Canada..) and said I had subdribed to a dating app that I hadn’t. They were very believable and had my email, home address, PayPal balance, payments, everything. Still freaked out about all this. 

 

Where did you obtain their phone number from? I have someone on my twitter who just posted earlier today about googling for Paypal's number and the first result not actually being Paypal, but a scam number.

^ This is what really happened, I'm sure of it.

There's NO WAY a scammer can cut off an in-flight phone call and call you back, supplanting themselves over a legitimate person.

I have Paypal, and I'm NOT going to stop using it.  It is too hard-wired into my life right now.  Canceling it just based on a fearful post on a forum would be an overreaction.  If anybody is worried, then change your Paypal password, and you could change your DAZ and email passwords too, while you're at it. 

But please don't go crazy and start canceling all of the conveniences that your modern life has to offer.  Unless you're planning to move to Ohio and join an Amish community, that is.

I tend to agree; I would also add: use two-factor authentication where you can. Don't make the passwords easy either, just cause you have 2Factor.

diogenese19348

From the description of what happened, I'd put a pretty large wager that there is spyware on that phone.

nonesuch00

It's been a decade since I got any phone call from a financial institution. Nowadays with such seedy criminals abusing email, internet, and phones, financial institutes try to conduct business via paper mail or live face to face business. I should add unless you inititate the communication.

Lissa_xyz

fastbike1 said:

@Pixolygon "Where did you obtain their phone number from? I have someone on my twitter who just posted earlier today about googling for Paypal's number and the first result not actually being Paypal, but a scam number."

 Paypal lists phone numbers under the Contact heading in the Help Center.

 

Yes, but I'm inquiring about where the OP specifically got the number s/he used from. I'm not asking where Paypal has it on their website as OP may not have obtained it from there.

Pippen

Wilmap said:

I have a security key which I have to use whenever I use PayPal. Even if they had my password they still can’t get into my account without it, and it changes every time I log in.

 

I use it too. Great protection. I wish my other accounts offered it.

Pippen

FSMCDesigns said:

The internet is a scary place, make no doubt about it. There is a youtube channel by a guy named scammerrevolts and he gets hacked by scammers, mostly in India, and then hacks them back, it's classic and scary how prolific these scammers are

I love that channel. Hilarious.