ebay/paypal hacked
 

I had my ebay and paypal hacked had a notices from paypal telling me they have payed £595 for my item i bought but i never bought it how was it easy for them to hack both and what happens now about the £595

there was an email scam floating around,it would show up as PAY PAL (not all 1 word) i very nearly opened it in my email.

paypal are usually very good with things like this

Phone them and tell em, and phone your bank to stop payment

Phoned ebay and paypal they locked my account and are looking into it the other thing is i dont even have £595 in that account so how did paypal allow it to go through

Item was mac book pro and was local pick up i stay in scotland item is in harlow so i did good been at work and picking it up hundreds of miles away

If your cards on paypal they will take it from your bank

But how do they get it as theres not £595 in that bank account

You go overdrawn if the bank doesn't knock it back!

yep................and then get charged for it, double whammy :mad::mad::mad:

Would like to hope my bank wont approve it and how did they manage to hack both is it something i have done or just cause both companys are owned together

Have you logged into your PayPal account to check this info? Loads of scam emails going round.

If it's a fraudulent transaction you can report the transaction as a fraud/unverified transaction - in most cases they side with yourself - I had it happen to me where someone paid am for something then 2 days later put a fraud case in against it saying it wasn't authorised. Luckily the courier hadn't collected the item so I wasn't at a loss!

As soon as i got the email from paypal saying i had paid £595 iphoned them straight away they had opened dispute and locked my account so have ebay

what has the seller of the item said about it?

Sent him a message stating i never bought ir wanted this he never replied

Ebay and PayPal are separate companies now.

Sounds like someone has a worm on your PC for them to gain your log in details, or like mentioned above , you opened up a scam email which will contained a worm.

Paypal will investigate things like the ISP the transaction was made from, the MAC address, the Config address of the computer used - if these do not match your normal ones, then it will most likely be awarded to you.

I'd run some very good anti malware and virus scans on your computer. Change all passwords after doing this.

I use my phone for everything so should i reset it

I doubt very much they got your details from you phone...its kinda easy to do, but takes the hacker to be within bluetooth range generally.

Once you have changed all your passwords etc, you should be ok, but remember to run all the virus and malware scanners you can, or just start a new profile on your PC.

OK thanks

Paypal have found in my favour so i have reset all passwords thanks for advice

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