Paypal Theft!

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i got an email early this morning claiming to be from paypal that stated that they'd received my payment of $131 US and thanks very much.
the email didn't look especially official and the address wasn't paypal, so i ignored it and went back to sleep.

when i woke up and went in to uni and checked my email properly, there was an email that was actually from paypal stating that the transaction of $131US to (email address i've never heard of) went through successfully.
I Immediately logged into my paypal account (by going to paypal.com directly of course) and saw that this was indeed the case, and that some scumbag has stolen about £90 odd pounds of my money :mad:

Obviously, the first things i did after that was change my paypal password and security questions, and then file a "Fraudulent transaction claim" through paypal.
the strange thing is, the amount that was taken from my account is almost exactly the amount that was in my account, so that no money actually left my bank account to pay the transaction.

Anyway, has anyone else had a similar issue with Paypal? am i likely to get my wonga back? :(
 
SMN said:
Dont count on it, PayPal are terrible thieving gits.
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but they usually side with the buyer don't they? i think paypal are treating me as the "buyer" in this dispute... :confused:

reevsy said:
On the home page somewhere. Excellent feature, though.
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Signed up and activated. awesome feature, i wonder why it isn't better publicised?
 
I once had £750 nicked via Paypal a number of years back. Got the money back but it was quite the scare at the time...:o
 
when i saw the "paypal balance: £0.55" this morning when it should have been £83.15 my blood pressure spiked itself to the moon I think :eek:

i almost had a damn heart attack from the shock!
 
Maccy said:
Sorry to hear about that Aod. I've just signed up for the SMS service, thanks for the link.
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Thanks Maccy, and thanks to reevsy and uvarvu for the info and link to the SMS service :)

what's worrying is that the password was an eight-character alpha-numeric non-dictionary word... which in theory should be very difficult to break.
Unsurprisingly, the email address that the money was sent to is a russian-Livemail address *unimpressed*
 
G|mp said:
I've never used PayPal, never trusted it for exactly this kind of thing happening.
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this is the first time anything like this has ever happened to me with PP :(
not the sort of thing i need to be worrying about with a massive piece of coursework due in for friday :mad:
 
Aod said:
this is the first time anything like this has ever happened to me with PP :(
not the sort of thing i need to be worrying about with a massive piece of coursework due in for friday :mad:
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It's every week you hear something about PP though.

A friend of mine on Facebooklol has just lost nigh on £400 through PP, he's only ever used it once to pay for something off Ebay years ago!
 
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