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Re: A question about PayPal fraud...

Posted By: MaaMaw
Date: Saturday, June 2, 2007, at 7:53 p.m.(pst)

In Response To: Re: A question about PayPal fraud... (Jim Kaiser)

>> If that's what happened, your husband very likely fell for a phishing
>> email where he logged in to a site that wasn't really paypal and they got
>> his username and password to set up the recurring payments.

Oh my... now it's starting to make sense.

There's no chance he knowingly gave his information to anyone. He works at Kinkos, and several times a month he comes home and tells me he tried (and failed) to convince a customer not to fax their banking information somewhere to claim their prize or whatever, so he's well aware of all that.

But once I went to what I thought was my Citibank account...

I delete piles of phishing emails every day, so I'm very familiar with them, but EVERYTHING about this email said "Citibank" (and I frequently get emails from them because I make my payments online) (and this wasn't asking for anything, just an informational thing).

So anyhoo, I clicked the link -- and of course as soon as it asked me to log in, I stopped dead -- but to my total amazement, there was NOTHING visible to tell me I was not on the Citibank site. I just knew.

Then I did something that Roadie scolded me for --

I went back to the email and clicked the link again, because I wanted to watch the bottom corner. Sure enough, I saw it flash through a bunch of IP#'s before it landed on the flawless "Citibank" page.

At this point, I'm guessing that's what happened. My husband is the ADD Poster Boy, so I doubt he'll remember, but I'm going to try to phish it out (sorry). It will make me feel better if I understand it.

>> Don't think that because you've straightened this out with your bank
>> and with the paypal debit card company that it's actually straightened out
>> in your paypal account.

They closed the PayPal account completely -- at least, that's what I think they did. We can't log into it at all... "Invalid Login Information."

We requested his password, and it said an email had been sent -- twice -- but no email ever came. That's what I don't under...

OMIGOD!!!....

Is it possible his email from PayPal is being diverted somehow and the account is still open??? They could have added another email address and made it the primary!!

He never put the bank account into PayPal -- this I know, because you can only have the same bank account number in one place, and I have it on my account.

The debit card he used with the account has been cancelled -- will that take care of it??

Thanks.

Luv,

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