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I bring you guys not really a warning but a testiment to remind you to change your pw's on things that can damage your real life

I just got this email tonight

Dear Jon ------,

This email confirms that you have paid Chiefpick.com

([email protected]) $179.35 USD using PayPal.
This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as "PAYPAL *CHIEFPICKCO".


I get to spend tommorrow sorting out a mess that isnt even mine but paypal has already been notified and is taking care of it.

The point is change your passwords frequently to avoid something like this ( my pp account had a 3 yr old pw)

" Dont let this happen to you!"

seriously guys if you have anything with personal information about YOU or your FAMILY either delete it ( the cards) or keep changing them pw's and check for viruses that might be keyloggers.


I hope this wont happen to anyone else

~Zerg
 
Sorry to hear that man. I hope that everything turns out alright. I need to change mine for sure.
 
Last year same thing happened to me and I took care of it. But now I know how to be more safe.
 
Just a reminder man,

Someone gaining access to you paypal also tells them your bank account info, your name and address, and your credit card/debit card currently used.

Please BE CAREFUL MAN, your best bet is to close your bank account and reopen. I know it is a pain but notify any credit cards linked to paypal, and close any bank accounts he/she has seen.
 
I avoid this by keeping 0.05$ in my paypal account at all times, and not linking it to a CC.
 
We get those kinds of emails quite often. The only difference is that they say "Dear PayPal Customer" instead of my real name. The ones that don't have my real name link to what LOOKS like PayPal, but is a phishing site. I just report those as phishing scams.

Sorry to hear your PayPal got compromised. Again, I have to say that even if you get an email that looks like it's from PayPal you ALWAYS open a new browswer window/tab to go directly to PayPal and log in. It definitely saves a lot of headache in the long run.

I've had emails in the past that said I sent some one money, ones that said I haven't mailed off whatever ebay item I wasn't selling, and emails claiming that I owe money for ebay auctions I didn't bid on... The only thing they all have in common is that they start off with Dear PayPal Customer. PayPal never sends out a payment request/notification without using your personal information/name... so everyone needs to be careful about that.
 
Yep that has happened to me. OR what about the letteres you get in the mail that give you a check for around $5,000 and they say to cash it and only give them $2,000 or something and you can keep the rest, I got that like 2 days in a rowe on time, lol. My fiancee worked at Bank of America before she passed away and I told her about it and she ran the check and it was a fraud check so she called the bank that it was from, somewhere in northern California, and they said a lot of people have been calling about it. Apparently the check goes through so you are able to withdraw the amount but within one to two business days they find out it's fraud and they take out the check's balance from the bank so your basically screwed, and you get charged with fraud. >.<

Also, I use Bank of America for my banking so last week I get a call from an Unknown number so I ignore it, than they call again so I pick it up and it's a lady trying to tell me that Bank of America has an exciting new offer for me and I just need to give them my social to confirm it's me, lol. I laughed at the lady and told her I was calling the cops, she hung up. But they are persistent, they called 11 times within the next 3 days.
 
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Yep that has happened to me. OR what about the letteres you get in the mail that give you a check for around $5,000 and they say to cash it and only give them $2,000 or something and you can keep the rest, I got that like 2 days in a rowe on time, lol. My fiancee worked at Bank of America before she passed away and I told her about it and she ran the check and it was a fraud check so she called the bank that it was from, somewhere in northern California, and they said a lot of people have been calling about it. Apparently the check goes through so you are able to withdraw the amount but within one to two business days they find out it's fraud and they take out the check's balance from the bank so your basically screwed, and you get charged with fraud. >.<

Also, I use Bank of America for my banking so last week I get a call from an Unknown number so I ignore it, than they call again so I pick it up and it's a lady trying to tell me that Bank of America has an exciting new offer for me and I just need to give them my social to confirm it's me, lol. I laughed at the lady and told her I was calling the cops, she hung up. But they are persistent, they called 11 times within the next 3 days.
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That's pretty much how they got my Mom to give her info. Mom's in her 60's and not very familiar with the latest scams. She gave her bank account information because she thought she was confirming something. They took most of her money out before she had a chance to call the bank back. The bank ended up changing her account info and giving her new cards. But they had to explain to her not to give her information over the phone.

These jerks target older people a lot. Even though quite a bit of the older population are on fixed incomes and pensions, these low life scam artists go after them specifically because most don't recognize a scam or aren't up to date with the different methods.

It just proves the whole theory: If it's too good to be true, it's probably a scam.
 
thanks for feelin sorry but the post was too remind you guys to take great care in hiding your information, ive already talked to the police over in his county and they are going to contact him ( paypal has already refunded the money( EVEN CALLED MY BANK!)) +1 to paypal
 
This reminds me of the time where my parents got some weird offer to get "$25,000". They.. seemed to believe it, because it was from some bank or magazine company (supposedly), and ALMOST did it.

I felt like laughing at them, thank god they didn't try.
 
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