Jamie-C
Member
Registered: 3rd Jun 08
Location: Ballycastle
User status: Offline
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Received an email from what was supposedly paypal,
Message received was as below,
quote:
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We need your help
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Dear PayPal client,
We need your help resolving an issue with your account. To give us time to
work together on this, we've temporarily limited what you can do with your
account until the issue is resolved.
We understand it may be frustrating not to have full access to your PayPal
account. We want to work with you to get your account back to normal as
quickly as possible.
What's the problem?
We recently noticed a pattern of activity in your account that is maybe
high risk. For more information, see the Restricted section in our User Agreement.
Case ID Number: PP-001-886-530-735
How you can help
It's usually pretty easy to take care of things like this. Most of the
time, we just need a little more information about your account or latest
transactions.
To help us with this and to find out what you can and can't do with your
account until the issue is resolved.
Click here to log in to your account and go to the Resolution Center.
Yours sincerely,
PayPal
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Please do not reply to this email because we are not monitoring this inbox.
To get in touch with us, log in to your account and click "Contact Us" at
the bottom of any page.
Copyright © 2012 PayPal. All rights reserved.
PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l.et Cie, S.C.A.
Société en Commandite par Actions
Registered office: 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxemburg
RCS Luxemburg B 118 349
PayPal Email ID PP1289
I'm usually very aware of stuff like this but I'm half asleep and stupidly clicked the link, and typed in paypal email and passwaord and logged in. I then started to fill in all my bank details stupidly ffs but didn't send them, just filled out the form, I then noticed the link at the top, fucking yamaha-zonor or something daft  , so I then quit.
Have I fucked up? What details do they have belonging to me?
What should I do?
[Edited on 17-08-2012 by Jamie-C]
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JaffaTB
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Registered: 7th Oct 09
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
User status: Offline
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if u didnt submit u should be ok
edit: just seen you logged in
change your password asap
[Edited on 17-08-2012 by JaffaTB]
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Colin
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
User status: Offline
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change your paypal password asap thay would never email asking for such details!
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
Location: West Sussex Drives: E46 M3
User status: Offline
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quote:
Originally posted by Colin
change your paypal password asap thay would never email asking for such details!
and the fact they never address you like that, they always use your name 
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
User status: Offline
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i done the same years back on an ebay email.
some cunt from hong chong wacky gained access to my account and started 'selling' job lots of mobile phones.
so they have your email and password, but not your bank details.
depends what paypal stores on the site when you log in though.
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Jamie-C
Member
Registered: 3rd Jun 08
Location: Ballycastle
User status: Offline
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I'm always aware of things like that but I don't know what I was thinking, I'm currently breaking my Corsa so when they said 'We recently noticed a pattern of activity in your account that is maybe high risk. For more information, see the Restricted section in our User Agreement', I assumed they thought I was trading and went ahead and filled out the form.
Theres nothing official looking about the email, no paypal logo etc, just a plain text email
Didn't submit my bank details though as it twigged. Thank god!
Changed my password, just hope I was quick enough
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noshua
Member
Registered: 19th Nov 08
User status: Offline
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Make sure you change the password associated with that email on other websites, if it has the same or a similar password
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Steve
Premium Member
Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
User status: Offline
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never click an email link always manually go to the site and go from there
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JonnyJ
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Registered: 23rd Sep 05
Location: Scotchland
User status: Offline
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
never click an email link always manually go to the site and go from there
Thanks for the helpful advice Captain Internet.
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Steve
Premium Member
Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
User status: Offline
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no probs
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M2RTY
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Registered: 25th May 01
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Username and password is all you need to buy with paypal, dont need bank details
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Root
Member
Registered: 28th Dec 08
User status: Offline
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To me, the first 3 words make it obvious that it's a scam.
"Dear PayPal client".
Change your password on your paypal and email if it's the same password
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Sam
Moderator
Premium Member
Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
User status: Offline
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Change the password to your PayPal, eBay and email accounts IMMEDIATELY!
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kennySRi
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Registered: 12th Nov 10
Location: Lancashire
User status: Offline
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 silly thing to do! As above, get them changed asap
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Steve
Premium Member
Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
User status: Offline
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Im not sure which is worse, this or your mate that bought the boat
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