Burned by PayPal spoof

[Rocky Raab]

Months ago, I got what appeared to be a email from PayPal asking me to confirm my password there.

I may have done so (can't recall for sure) and have since learned that such requests are all scams. Well, nothing happened - until yesterday.

My account was charged over a thousand dollars in two fake purchases, and since my PayPal account didn't have that much in it, PayPal automatically took the money from my checking account! Now THAT's overdrawn and I have bills to pay!

I immediately filed a claim at PayPal, and they have frozen the account. They are investigating. The transactions will prove to be bogus, I'm sure. But in the meantime, my checking account is fried, and I can't freeze that or it's frozen for everything, not just PayPal.

What worries me is that the two purchases were to people in England. Getting money back in cases like that can be problematic, I've heard.

Moral: don't fall for any PayPal or eBay message that asks you for anything!