My PayPal Acct Hacked


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Hey could give me a few bucks like 10 dollars

I'm a very poor college student I'd love the help

my paypal email is

I'll repay you in anyway.

Help me have a good christmas.

ahahahaha, sure dude, just send me your mom's phone number :D

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:huh: Gee I didn't know we were allowed to beg for money on Neowin. You rich readers out there may send me all you can -- I'm freezing here in my house :blush:

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Poor doesn't mean I don't I can't promote

please just drop a few bucks into my paypal account

my paypal email is removed

please I beg any amount will be great!

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BObba, you are goin ot have to stop that, i mean the first time maybe, but you might get in trouble wit the admins if you keep it up. I have 'paypal', just havnt put my card in yet, i will wait untill i really want to get something.

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odd uve gotten attacked before.....

have u ever written ur passwords down, told anyone, or maybe someone has seen it while u typed. I dont think its Paypal?s fault. Maybe someone is accessiing ur computer. check for keyloggers or something similar as i havent heard bad things about paypal. theres a keylogger that i got that tracks every keystroke every day and stores it in a hidden file in system32. i find that no antivirus, or trogen detector has found it. might wanna snoop around or seek professional help/investigation.

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Having an account with a hard password isn't enough to protect yourself.

Here is a checklist of things you should do:

1) Get a strong firewall software - Make sure no one can install trojans or anything else to send out data from your computer (i.e. spying, etc).

2) Get strong anti-virus software - So you can make sure people don't install trojans, key loggers, etc.

3) Don't ever write down your password on your computer (in a file, program, etc) and never ever write it down in the real world (i.e. sticky note, notebook, etc).

4) Never ever save your password in your browser.

5) Never click on a link in an email that takes you to paypal (Heck, I don't even trust links on legit sites, I go directly to paypal.com and other sites I have logins to).

6) Always verify the URL you are logging into. To always be safe, kill your browser, restart it, manually enter the address.

7) Choose a random 8+ character password. Remember, most systems are case sensite, use upper/lower case combinations.

8) If you have the option, choose a random 8+ character username as well

9) And this is the biggest, don't ever give out your password. If you call support and they ask it, you called the wrong number. No one will ever ever ask you for it. Don't give it out (Its like your 10 year old daughters virginity, ain't no mofo going to take that away while you're on watch... protected by firearms with safety turn off... shoot to kill, ask questions later!).

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hey did you get an email asking you to update your paypal information?

i got that... it looked extremely legit too. they wnated to me to enter my info so they could have my info up to date. I mean all the links and images were directly from paypal. I guess only the submit button was linked to another site. I knew paypal does not send emails to update any sort of info.

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find out his IP, and with that, find his ISP. contact them, and if they are stupid enough to give you his address, fly over to his house and egg + tp his house :shifty: once finished, scream out "who's the winner now?!"

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I don't understand...but I guess I've never been scammed with PayPal over the past 4 years so I don't know what it's like. But paypalsucks.com seems pretty biased about PayPal. Everytime you login to PayPal it tells you never give out your info to anyone. The only way someone could've 'hacked' them would be with a trojan or keylogger of some sort unless they told someone their info.

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