Watch Your Paypal! All of my money is GONE! :(

[Duramaxgirl]

I'm so sorry! I just checked mine and its empty to.... but that's normal for me. I just bought a ton of hen pellets!
There has to be some kind of protection or something for you. I really hope you get you money back!

 

[stoopid]

SOME PEOPLE JUST SUCK. Last week I got a distress e-mail from Ken Lee from the JBBA. I don't really know him, but am willing to help out anyone in need. Claims to have gone on vacation overseas, and was held up at gunpoint, yadda yadda. I e-mail him back and ask what the preferred leg length is, and what his favorite color variety is. This jerk answers "a million questions, I'm so disappointed in you, will ask someone else" Now I know this is BS. I called Ken, he had just found out himself! He had just had his computer fixed, had a virus... Well, now somebody has all his personal info... I wish we could do more to prevent dirtbags from doing this to us.
I hope you can work with paypal, and recover something. Maybe I can buy some eggs? What have you got? Good luck, Roberta

 

[ranchhand]

Just an additional caution- if you get an email from PayPal for anything and they have kindly included a link for you to sign in to check your account?

DO NOT DO IT. It's a phishing scam to get your password.

 

[SarahFair]

SO sorry this happend to you! Its just not fair you have to worry about this upon being a new baby

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Yeah, thats a scam.. Someone else on another forum posted about it

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Oh, crud.

He would have been very disappointed if he had tried to steal my money. I have a separate bank account just for PP transactions. He would have a total of $13.46 from my account.

 

[Duramaxgirl]

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This happened to my dad! Really embarrassing! Right on his facebook. I can't believe people can do things like this!

 

[lockedhearts]

This is the reason I no longer do paypal, happened to me twice. Paypal was kind enough to not do anything about it. Luckily they only got the amount in my paypal not my bank account.

 

[silkieroo]

Oh that Sucks!! I hope they catch that scum bag!!

 

[redhen]

What if my paypal is connected to my bank acct?? Can they still get access to my money?
I dont have an actual paypal acct through paypal.... but paypal uses my debit card...
Guess i better go change that and open up another acct for just paypal stuff...

 

[lockedhearts]

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It would be safer. What I did when I had one, was had a pre-paid debit card attached to the paypal. I only put money on the pre-paid if I needed to buy something. When I got hacked they were only able to get my PP $ . I did have to cancel the Pre-paid card though.