I've been selling on eBay for almost 4 years now and I just got scammed...
Someone logged into my Paypal account, added a bank account, and withdrew over $1000.
I didnt notice it for a day and a half since they didnt email me that a bank account was added or that funds were withdrawn.
I just spoke with Paypal and they have opened an investigation... it will take 10 days...
Will Paypal come through on this?? Do I have to be nervous that they will attack bank accounts etc?
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dealrage said:I've been selling on eBay for almost 4 years now and I just got scammed...
Someone logged into my Paypal account, added a bank account, and withdrew over $1000.
I didnt notice it for a day and a half since they didnt email me that a bank account was added or that funds were withdrawn.
I just spoke with Paypal and they have opened an investigation... it will take 10 days...
Will Paypal come through on this?? Do I have to be nervous that they will attack bank accounts etc?
next time don;t log in your paypal account on a public computer and user a stronger password, not using your dog, kid, wife name as a password
What do you mean about adding a bank account? Did they add one of yours and then withdraw from it, or did they add one of their own and then withdrew your PP balance to it?
Don't they have to verify the bank account first?
first of all, my password is nothing that easy... I have no idea how they figured it out. I havent logged on a public computer, I work from home and noone else has access to my computers...
And yes, they added their own bank account, and withdrew money without verifying it.
Has anyone else had this?
dealrage said:first of all, my password is nothing that easy... I have no idea how they figured it out. I havent logged on a public computer, I work from home and noone else has access to my computers...
And yes, they added their own bank account, and withdrew money without verifying it.
Has anyone else had this?
Its a bank fraud its covered and will get returned.
applepielicious said:Don't they have to verify the bank account first?
You can verify the bank account instantly if you have online access to it, by entering your userid and password into the PayPal screen & it logs onto the account for verification. You'd probably want to change your bank account password immediately after. 
Had you responded to any e-mails from 'PayPal' lately???
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Maybe keylogger software on your home computer?
Do you have kids/teenagers that use any computer you have accessed your account from. They will install anything and everything. The bad guy/gals change their malware so quickly these days that AV is increasingly ineffective. I work in incident response and frequently upload stuff I know is bad to www.virustotal.com which scans malware with 35 AV products. I is not unusual for less than 6 AV products to detect a particular piece of malware.
secstate said:Do you have kids/teenagers that use any computer you have accessed your account from. They will install anything and everything. The bad guy/gals change their malware so quickly these days that AV is increasingly ineffective. I work in incident response and frequently upload stuff I know is bad to www.virustotal.com which scans malware with 35 AV products. I is not unusual for less than 6 AV products to detect a particular piece of malware.
That is a good question. I recently cleaned up my nieces' laptop, which was a mess with all kinds of problems. I installed Systemsuite 8, SpywareBlaster, Adaware, and Malwarebytes. I found coolwebsearch, bonzi buddy, and a host of keyloggers, malware, spyware, adware, etc. I installed SpwareBlaster, and configured it to reject downloads from know websites; so my niece could not install coolwebsearch, bonzi buddy and other programs. You can even customize the list and add websites you don't want anybody downloading from. It is freeware and can be found at Cnet's download.com. As Stoned suggested, you could have had a keylogger installed.
Hopefully PP will come through, but in the meantime, I would do what secstate suggests, and scan that computer! You may need to change your log-in information on all secure sites you visit. I have never heard of a situation such as yours, it seems they would need more than just log-in info to add a bank account. It never ceases to amaze me what the thieves and scammers get away with nowadays. 
dealrage said:first of all, my password is nothing that easy... I have no idea how they figured it out. I havent logged on a public computer, I work from home and noone else has access to my computers...
And yes, they added their own bank account, and withdrew money without verifying it.
Has anyone else had this?
Are you using a wireless home network? If so, have you secured the router from outsiders by changing the default username and password, enabling encryption, turning off the broadcasting of your router's name, etc.?
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