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skew
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Need PayPal Advice ASAP

i have a paypal account and recently received an email in re: to a recent payment. all the info is included in the email receipt (item, price, company, name and address of purchaser) HOWEVER i did not purchase this ite, i logged into PayPal and was going to complete a claim of unathorized payment. the form requests information (card #, pin #) that i don't feel comfortable submitting online.

what can i do to resolve this situation?

i am calling the credit company now.

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CORRECTION:
i clicked on the link in the email to dispute the claim.

Message edited 2/19/2006 9:31:45 AM.

Posted 2/19/06 8:51 AM
 
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VirginiaDeb
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Deb

Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

did you login from the link on your e-mail, or did you go to paypal and login?

go to paypal and login to see if the charge is there - it might be a scam to get you to give your credit card info.

Posted 2/19/06 9:02 AM
 

justme1
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

I get these emails allthe time..
When you log onto paypal, NOT from their link but from your own, do you see the transaction there?
I never do.. thats how i know its a scam

Posted 2/19/06 9:02 AM
 

DebG
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

I would check with your credit card company and see if it REALLY went through...it could be a phishing email.

Posted 2/19/06 9:02 AM
 

dm24angel
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

Its probably a scam. I got one too. Actually a few. You dont have to do anything. After the first one, paypal reported it wasnt from them and to just delete anything further.
Paypal like Ebay address's all emails in your name.

so where the email part is it will say "Dear ....your anem
if it doesnt, its not fromt hem.

was YOUR address on it?

Posted 2/19/06 9:02 AM
 

MrsPorkChop
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

Posted by skew

i have a paypal account and recently received an email in re: to a recent payment. all the info is included in the email receipt (item, price, company, name and address of purchaser) HOWEVER i did not purchase this ite, i logged into PayPal and was going to complete a claim of unathorized payment. the form requests information (card #, pin #) that i don't feel comfortable submitting online.

what can i do to resolve this situation?

i am calling the credit company now.

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SOOMEONE DID THIS TO ME THURSDAY!!!!

SOMOENE TRIED TO TRANFER MONEY OUT OF MY PAYPAL ACCOUNT FOR 750 EUROS = 953 US DOLLARS
I CAUGHT IT CAN CANCELLED THE TRANSFER

CALL PAYPAL NOW
GOOD LUCK

Message edited 2/19/2006 9:06:18 AM.

Posted 2/19/06 9:05 AM
 

skew
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

all the info was in an email. email appeared just as all my previous paypal email receipts have and yes, my name was present but not my address.

i logged into payapl and the charge doesn't not appear and the CC company does not have a posting for the charge.

how does this happen? i am going to check w/ the CC company again on moday and the company where the item was purchased.

Message edited 2/19/2006 9:09:47 AM.

Posted 2/19/06 9:09 AM
 

dm24angel
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

Posted by skew

all the info was in an email. email appeared just as all my previous paypal email receipts have and yes, my name was present.

i logged into payapl and the charge doesn't not appear and the CC company does not have a posting for the charge.

how does this happen? i am going to check w/ the CC company again on moday and the company where the item was purchased.




its a good scam thats how.

Recently I started getting some that were a question about an item someone said I had listed. all clever scams...usually nothing is actually true( like getting money out)


your name was on it??? In the actual email???

Posted 2/19/06 9:10 AM
 

skew
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

calling PayPal now

Posted 2/19/06 9:11 AM
 

skew
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

Posted by dm24angel

Posted by skew

all the info was in an email. email appeared just as all my previous paypal email receipts have and yes, my name was present.

i logged into payapl and the charge doesn't not appear and the CC company does not have a posting for the charge.

how does this happen? i am going to check w/ the CC company again on moday and the company where the item was purchased.




its a good scam thats how.

Recently I started getting some that were a question about an item someone said I had listed. all clever scams...usually nothing is actually true( like getting money out)


your name was on it??? In the actual email???



yup. the header was PayPal and below was, "dear x x" (my name) and all the transaction info.

Posted 2/19/06 9:14 AM
 

VirginiaDeb
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Deb

Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

My friend got scammed by one of these last year - someone in europe stole a lot of money from her account.

I'm glad you didn't fill out the online form!

Posted 2/19/06 9:21 AM
 

julz33
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

the same thing happened to me. forward the email to [email protected].

Posted 2/19/06 9:27 AM
 

skew
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

called paypal and they said that their emails will NEVER contain a link. this one did and that is what i clicked on to dispute the claim. thankfully, i never completed the form. i forwarded the email to [email protected] and changed my password. received a reply from paypal stating the following,

"Thank you for bringing this suspicious email to our attention. We can confirm that the email you received was not sent to you by PayPal. The
website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorized or used by PayPal. We are currently investigating this incident fully. Please do
not enter any personal or financial information into this website."

thanks SO much for all of your help
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Posted 2/19/06 9:30 AM
 

MrsJ
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

Sounds like a scam to me, I get these emails all the time. I hope you didnt give them any info.

Posted 2/19/06 9:34 AM
 

Lisa
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

Posted by skew

called paypal and they said that their emails will NEVER contain a link.



I was going to post this....PayPal will never include a link. They will tell you to go to the website (without a link) and to sign on to your acct.

Posted 2/19/06 9:51 AM
 

MommyofG
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

Posted by skew

called paypal and they said that their emails will NEVER contain a link. this one did and that is what i clicked on to dispute the claim. thankfully, i never completed the form. i forwarded the email to [email protected] and changed my password. received a reply from paypal stating the following,

"Thank you for bringing this suspicious email to our attention. We can confirm that the email you received was not sent to you by PayPal. The
website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorized or used by PayPal. We are currently investigating this incident fully. Please do
not enter any personal or financial information into this website."

thanks SO much for all of your help
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oh thank god you didnt complete the claim!!!! Just happened to me this morning too!!!! I called them right away, they said if you did go in and answer those questions your identity and banking/CC info would have been stolen!!!!!!

she said a page would have come up that would look exactly like thiers asking personal information. Chat Icon

I too sent it to [email protected].

Freaking crazy!!!!

My "supposed" purchase was from ebay for a forever 21 strapless brown/pink salsa dress LOL, I was like W-T-F.

She also said paypal would always address us by our name not our email address. On mine they addressed me by my email address. Scary , it looks so legit too!!! thank goodness for my security alert coming up when I too clicked on dispute this claim. Funny I dont remember ever seeing that too on my purchases. I will look out for it now.

Posted 2/19/06 4:15 PM
 

skew
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

Posted by girlygrl33

Posted by skew

called paypal and they said that their emails will NEVER contain a link. this one did and that is what i clicked on to dispute the claim. thankfully, i never completed the form. i forwarded the email to [email protected] and changed my password. received a reply from paypal stating the following,

"Thank you for bringing this suspicious email to our attention. We can confirm that the email you received was not sent to you by PayPal. The
website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorized or used by PayPal. We are currently investigating this incident fully. Please do
not enter any personal or financial information into this website."

thanks SO much for all of your help
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oh thank god you didnt complete the claim!!!! Just happened to me this morning too!!!! I called them right away, they said if you did go in and answer those questions your identity and banking/CC info would have been stolen!!!!!!

she said a page would have come up that would look exactly like thiers asking personal information. Chat Icon

I too sent it to [email protected].

Freaking crazy!!!!

My "supposed" purchase was from ebay for a forever 21 strapless brown/pink salsa dress LOL, I was like W-T-F.

She also said paypal would always address us by our name not our email address. On mine they addressed me by my email address. Scary , it looks so legit too!!! thank goodness for my security alert coming up when I too clicked on dispute this claim. Funny I dont remember ever seeing that too on my purchases. I will look out for it now.



scary, huh? i did click on the link but did not fill out the form. i was advised to change my password and run a virus scan. my "charge" was over $300.

the company name and info was listed as well. should i call them or do you think they involved in the scan as well. it looks like their site is genuine.

Posted 2/19/06 6:04 PM
 

oakslady
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Re: Need PayPal Advice ASAP

glad you got it figured out - and ebay and paypal always address you by your name
that is a good way to tell if the emails are actually from them

Message edited 2/19/2006 10:15:22 PM.

Posted 2/19/06 10:13 PM
 
 

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