You had £2000 sitting in your paypal account?with 10 min someone had withdrawn £2000 from my account
Webmailing companies pay hundreds of thousands every year for email addresses. The irony is that "most" people, who are not that savvy with Phishing/hacking/dupe accounts etc, usually use their own regular email account to open up an ebay or PayPal account. When this email account is linked to all your personal stuff like banking details etc... it can become your worst nightmare when the "naughties" have your details. Now, some dubious characters also disguise themselves as webmailers and buy email lists from other companies. This is quite legal for marketing purposes but if the list is in the wrong hands... Hacking/Phishing etc is the result. Another way to check if an email is from who it says it is, is to hover your mouse over the "Sender" before opening the mail and you will see the address that it came from. If it doesnt match the sender... dont open it. (Works for Hotmail). Another way scammers get hold of your email address is by generating a listt of random mails from A-Z. So for example... adam@gmail, adam1@gmail, adam12@gmail etc etc. They hire a server for a few dollars a month, set up their auto mailing function and send to thousands of random addresses. The sad thing is.... at least a handful of those addresses are actually being used by people with PayPal accounts. I will try and post a PayPal page with links, to show you how easy it is to fool people. ... (By-the-way... Im not a scammer, I just know a few script coders, programmers etc!)viccar;63688 wrote:Ive always wondered how they get your email, it cant just be blanket style because ive had one within days of new email/paypal/ebay account, so somewhere between them there has to be a security breach of some kind.
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