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eroxgirl
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Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
I just checked my email and had a receipt from Paypal for a purchase of a camcorder off of Amazon for $270 being shipped to someone in Gwynn Oak, Md - I have his name and address on the email.
The thing is I cancelled my Paypal acct back in January 06.
I'm not sure what to do? Help please!! 
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Elbee
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
It's a spoof email ... email [email protected] I think and report it.
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| Posted 4/5/07 4:51 PM |
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Bri
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
It is a scam. Do not reply to it. Log onto paypal and check your account or even contact paypal directly, but DO NOT respond to it. I had a similar e-mail about a dell computer and I freaked. My hubby told me it was a scam and to check my paypal account. I did and sure enough, no transaction was processed. Since you are saying your account was cancelled, if you cannot access it through Paypal, I would call just to rest your mind.
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| Posted 4/5/07 4:52 PM |
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randella
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
the email is probably the scam-- not that someone got into your paypal account. If you go to pay pal's web site-- there is an email address that you can fwd to as well as guidelines to know whether or not the email came from paypal.
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| Posted 4/5/07 4:52 PM |
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CouponKT
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
I had this too!! To be safe, I changed my password when this happened, but I don't think it was related.
I get these scam e-mails on my work computer too in which I don't even have an eBay account.
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| Posted 4/5/07 4:54 PM |
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bikramaddict
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
you have to forward the email you got to the address Elbee mentions above...if you write a seperate email it won't help.
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| Posted 4/5/07 5:01 PM |
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eroxgirl
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
Posted by RandJ0806
you have to forward the email you got to the address Elbee mentions above...if you write a seperate email it won't help.
Thanks, that's exactly what I did.
There was a link on the email to dispute the charges that brought me directly to the paypal site but I was hesitant to even attempt to login so I haven't yet.
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| Posted 4/5/07 5:14 PM |
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sirk1020
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
I just got the same thing!
For a $270 camcorder purchase for someone in Massapaquea
I don't have a paypal acct though. I closed it after this happened once before - don't know how they got my email address.
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| Posted 4/5/07 5:16 PM |
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Christine
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
Posted by eroxgirl
Posted by RandJ0806
you have to forward the email you got to the address Elbee mentions above...if you write a seperate email it won't help.
Thanks, that's exactly what I did.
There was a link on the email to dispute the charges that brought me directly to the paypal site but I was hesitant to even attempt to login so I haven't yet.
Good call - if you login they will have your password & info.
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| Posted 4/5/07 5:17 PM |
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Bri
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
DO NOT access paypal through that e-mail whatever you do!
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| Posted 4/5/07 5:19 PM |
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eroxgirl
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
Posted by Christine
Good call - if you login they will have your password & info.
I'm really not that smart - I gave my AOL password away a few years ago that way.  I just try not to make the same mistakes twice.
Thanks everyone for your advice! 
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| Posted 4/5/07 5:22 PM |
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eroxgirl
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
Posted by THEINFAMOUSMRS.OTG
DO NOT access paypal through that e-mail whatever you do!
The site looks exactly the same but the address bar said something different so I closed the window.
this is EXACTLY WHY I posted here before doing anything else. You girls know EVERYTHING!! 
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| Posted 4/5/07 5:23 PM |
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
I got something similar today too. It's all just a scam.
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| Posted 4/5/07 5:32 PM |
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skip123
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
I got the same exact thing 2 days ago..i called paypal...the email came to an email that I do not have a paypal account connected to so I knew it was fishy...i called them.they told me to forward it to [email protected] and then delete it...they also told me do not respond to it...HTH
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| Posted 4/5/07 5:49 PM |
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veeandrich
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Re: Possible Pay Pal fraud - HELP!!!
It's a scam, same thing happened to me except it was a watch. I reported it to paypal who confirmed it was fraud, and I had to change all my passwords
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| Posted 4/5/07 6:30 PM |
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