Somebody tried to hack into my Paypal account!

Hello,

Somebody tried to hack into my Paypal account. Apparently, I was selling on another site. For sure, I know one of the buyers tried playing the fool around with me because I got a password reminder this morning from Paypal.


What are the precautions i need to take?

Regards,
Dilip Samuel

 

make sure the password reminder is legit. this could be phishing.

 

Yes, I saw it was from Paypal.com and not paypal.hacker.com

In any case, I store passwords in firefox and whenever i goto paypal.com, it gets filled up by default. So if the hacker, tries to phish with another url, my form doesn't get filled up.

I mean why do people keep doing this sh*t? Why can't people lead honest lives? Is it because they are lazy or do they need money so bad?

 

Change the security questions and the password

 

It is in their blood buddy.

 

Don't register for sites using your paypal password, because sometimes it is stored unecrypted. And they can view it and try to hack you.

Rep me .

 

Install this - http://www.iconix.com/paypal/
on your PC , it tells you whether the email is really from PayPal or not.
It is approved by PayPal , & it works really well.

If the email you receive does not pass the Iconix scanner ,
just forward it to - spoof [at] paypal [dot] com & they will take care of it.

Thanks
Ishan

 

better to choose PayPal password different from other passwords

 

Yah exactly , don't use same password everywhere !

 

This has happened to me in the past. Be careful. This also happened with my ebay account, someone listed a jukebox for sale that obvoisuly I didn;'t own. Don't know what anyone would get out of that other than making me run in circles with ebay to tell them.