Are you sure it's a real PayPal email and not a scam?Anyone else suffered with it?
A while back my missus had someone buy an iPad and a laptop from our Groupon account and now tonight I have just had three messages from Paypal saying I have requested the transfers from my bank account to my PayPal account of £2,000, £2,000 and £2,000.
Considering I only have £16.29 in my account I think they're not going to be able to pull this one off, but these things are bloody annoying, the amount of work and clearing up you have to do. Grrr!!
Yep.Are you sure it's a real PayPal email and not a scam?
I haven't been on PayPal at all though for ages, so not logged on at all.Always type the PayPal website address into your web browser and check your account that way, never use a link from an email even if it looks legit. It's invariably a scam. I've lost count of the amount of times I have to remind the wife the emails she is getting are scams. Its probably a good thing she's bankrupt and has no money for the scammers to get their hands on!!
No, no option to cancel. Just says the transactions are pending and now under investigation, because I reported them.Click on the pending payments within PayPal - is there an option to cancel? I've not been prolific on PayPal for a few years now but I'm sure cash transfer transactions used to have a cancel option right up until it actually cleared into the PayPal account.
If someone's got hold of your log in I'm not sure why they didn't just make some purchases and add a different address for shipping. The companies being ripped off would invariably have sent the items out before anyone was aware there was an issue. Transferring cash to a PayPal balance takes days and gives the user plenty of time to notice a problem and rectify it.
Click on the pending payments within PayPal - is there an option to cancel? I've not been prolific on PayPal for a few years now but I'm sure cash transfer transactions used to have a cancel option right up until it actually cleared into the PayPal account.
If someone's got hold of your log in I'm not sure why they didn't just make some purchases and add a different address for shipping. The companies being ripped off would invariably have sent the items out before anyone was aware there was an issue. Transferring cash to a PayPal balance takes days and gives the user plenty of time to notice a problem and rectify it.
Yeah, not purchased anything. This is just stating I have asked to transfer £6,000 from my bank account into my PayPal account. Sounds like lining up for a purchase. Maybe it is a PayPal only deal somewhere. not sure, but usually it just takes the money straight from your bank account anyway doesn't it.So what have you (not) purchased this time round or is it just a money transfer?
I would hope anyone who uses PayPal to sell expensive kit would not post to an unconfirmed address as they are highly unlikely to be covered in case of fraud / claims irrespective of whether someone signed for said item.
Yeah, it's really weird. When I make PayPal payments I never go into my PayPal account, I just choose the PayPal option and it is all linked to your account anyway isn't it.Now that really is odd. As I said earlier, if they have your log in details they can make a few purchases and alter the send to address. By the time the seller knows it's a con they have probably already posted the item out and they are screwed. In this case the scammers has given you a weeks notice that they are up to something. I can't think why somebody would go about a con this way but it's a good thing they have as you've had plenty of pre warning and a seller hasn't been burnt.
Done!Probably goes without saying but make sure you change your password for PayPal as well....
I had a call from the bank a few weeks back. Somebody was in Sunderland trying to purchase something with my card and was checking if it was me as I'd only been using the same card an hour earlier in Coventry.Anyone else suffered with it?
A while back my missus had someone buy an iPad and a laptop from our Groupon account and now tonight I have just had three messages from Paypal saying I have requested the transfers from my bank account to my PayPal account of £2,000, £2,000 and £2,000.
Considering I only have £16.29 in my account I think they're not going to be able to pull this one off, but these things are bloody annoying, the amount of work and clearing up you have to do. Grrr!!
Cancel your Groupon account mateAnyone else suffered with it?
A while back my missus had someone buy an iPad and a laptop from our Groupon account and now tonight I have just had three messages from Paypal saying I have requested the transfers from my bank account to my PayPal account of £2,000, £2,000 and £2,000.
Considering I only have £16.29 in my account I think they're not going to be able to pull this one off, but these things are bloody annoying, the amount of work and clearing up you have to do. Grrr!!
We did, immediately and have never used it again since.Cancel your Groupon account mate
so the police know what they are going to do, when and how they are going to do it, and at which address, but have no interest in waiting there to catch them in the act?They are barstards these people. With the missus' one they bought a laptop and an iPad and she got an email to confirm, so we cancelled it straight away. Checked the Groupon account and all was seemingly legit except for the fact that whoever got in the account changed the delivery address to an address in London. We got straight onto the police to tell them thinking they could nab them, what we us having the delivery address, but they calmy said it was pointless and the thieves wouldn't be at that address, but that they would just wait outside the property and when the delivery was made they would just jump out of a car or a van and claim the parcel. The police said the owner of the property wouldn't know a single thing about it.
That's about the size of it.so the police know what they are going to do, when and how they are going to do it, and at which address, but have no interest in waiting there to catch them in the act?
Mmmmm... how many people have the password, is it complex enough, definitely don't use a dictionary word use a garbage string and stick some punctuation chars in (!"£$%^&*).That's about the size of it.
Mmmmm... how many people have the password, is it complex enough, definitely don't use a dictionary word use a garbage string and stick some punctuation chars in (!"£$%^&*).
Only I have the password. I don't have any punctuation characters in there though. As soon as I start doing that I forget all my passwords.
I didn't realise that PayPal was set up as a Direct Debit. Had I known that I would have just cancelled it myself. Always just thought it transferred money from my account to PayPal at my request.Yep it will setup a direct debit link with Paypal so it can link to take money from your account. Stopping that should prevent any money going direct.
Then it will have your cards as well seperate.
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