Comments on: Unauthorized Payment Done With My PayPal Account

By: m.lines

m.lines — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:10:50 +0000

ive just had £424.00 taken out of my paypal account 2 days after xmas. i contacted paypal who informed me there was not enough evidence for me to make a claim. So what now can anyone help themselves and paypal just dont bother sorting it. i always thought paypal was great not now…..

By: John - Easy Internet Marketing

John - Easy Internet Marketing — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:07:34 +0000

Hi Martin,

I also experienced this before. At that time, I was really in panic because the money taken from my account is really huge.

So what I did was contacted Paypal regarding this issue and luckily, reply to my complaints and eventually get my money back.

There are various reasons that your paypal balance will be deducted or stolen.

1. SpyWare: It is a type of program that will spy your computer and record all what you do in your computer remotely. This can’t be detected easily by an anti-virus.

2. You forgot to unsubscribe a paid membership. This was often happen in some of my blogging friends.

3. Someone use your computer and found your account open or seen your confidential files.

Either 3 of these reasons, we should usually visit our account to know what’s happening.

I would love to know what’s the update in your side.

- John

By: Tara

Tara — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:09:52 +0000

Same thing happened to my husband yesterday (SAME company, too…SANTREX). Paypal called him and asked if he authorized the transaction ($3000!!!) and he said no. NOW it shows up on our bank account as a deduction anyway this morning. Luckily we had no where near $3000 in the account, but this is causing all sorts of trouble for us at the moment. Did anyone figure out how this happened?

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:28:31 +0000

Both my bank and paypal account have been hacked this month. £630 from the bank account to which I got back and around £1000 from paypal. Both have completely different username and passwords. My PC has also been scanned and nothing was found.

However, after reading all the info above, there seems to be some kind of connection to all this. Before all this happened, I won and purchased a website on flippa.com. Also included in the price was the transfer of the site to my hosting account. So, corresponding with them through emails, I gave the neccesary details for them to do so. Again, completely different details to any of accounts above. The problem is, I never got the site.

Is it possible these guys may have something to do with it?

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:16:04 +0000

This is very discouraging to me, to hear this has been going on for so long. Last Saturday I received several emails saying I had a transaction in my PayPal account, which is linked to my checking account and debit card. The total transactions were around $4,000. I called PayPal and they said my account was on hold and that the recepient of the transactions had not receieved the money, but that the transactions had already been sent to my bank for payment. (I didn’t have $4,000 in the bank) I called the bank and we were able to catch the transactions before they hit the bank. But I did have to close my bank account and open a new one.

Since then a couple strange things have been happening though. I keep getting notifications from yahoo saying I am trying to reset my password and I am not. And I got a friend request on Facebook by someone with the same last name (Forand) as the some of the faudulent charges. I feel like I’m being attacked online!
Since then a couple strange things have been happening though. I keep getting notifications from yahoo saying I am trying to reset my password and I am not. And I got a friend request on Facebook by someone with the same last name (Forand) as the some of the faudulent charges. I feel like I’m being attacked online!

By: Martin Brinkmann

Martin Brinkmann — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:16:51 +0000

Jesse, they never give out those information. Maybe with a court order.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 04 May 2011 08:58:20 +0000

Thanks Martin, Is Paypal willing to give it if asked? My friend noticed an unauthorized transaction in Paypal but he is not sure so he wants to know if the transaction is coming from a different IP?

I am a paypal user too and have been using it for online payment and this thing gets me interested.

Thanks for a quick response!

By: Martin Brinkmann

Martin Brinkmann — Wed, 04 May 2011 08:35:08 +0000

Jesse only PayPal sees that IP and they do not give it out.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 04 May 2011 08:31:35 +0000

Hi, Is there anyway to track the IP of the person who made transaction via paypal?

If someone knows how, please advise and thankyou!

By: ABC

ABC — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:54:36 +0000

You probably have an account somewhere else using the same password and email, and the Administrator of that site in fact either tried himself to steal your money or paid someone to do it for him. That is why you never keep the same passwords everywhere, username is fine but not same passwords

By: Kman990

Kman990 — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:58:59 +0000

So i watching a movie friday night and i get an email saying ive made a purchase to NC soft in the total of 49.99 euros…and then minutes later an email saying i have restrictions on my account….i read these on my blackberry i believe the event time to when i found out was less then an hour…so i phone paypal they say my account was hacked and they placed a limit on it. They said a case was opened on the account and an investigation will take place in which it will be found in my favor…so next day comes by and i get an email that morning saying case has been in my favor. Thing is…during the limitation i had 5.61 Canadian in my account and now have 76.51 in it,…but is i believe i only had 0 dollars in my account…i searched the guys email and name its from Austrailia hes some CEO at a company down there…am i like 75 dollars richer or somethin? and is his email and name even correct…

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:04 +0000

It just happened to me tonight. I made a payment using my iPhone through PayPal. i do not keep any money in my Paypal acct, I have it linked to my bank, so everytime i initiate a payment, it pulls the funds from the bank and makes the payment. So, about 2 hours after i made the payment, i get an email about a receipt for the eBay ift certificate i just bought for 200!!!
So that means someone hacked into my PP acct and amde the purchase, cause i sure didn’t. At transaction details, the only info listed is an email address, that i managed to find on FACEBOOK, and it belongs to some kid in SC. I changed all my passwords and security questions, and i filed an unauthorized transaction with paypal. I’m really curious to say the least, about what is going to happen.

By: Sinfullygorgeous

Sinfullygorgeous — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:38:29 +0000

I’ve just been duped for $898NZ to someone in Italy. The bank can’t cancel the payment from this end…WHY WHO THE HELL KNOWS!!!!
And haven’t been able to cancel my credit card yet, as they want to see if the transaction goes through! FREAKIN’ BRILLIANT! i have had no response from Paypal. I ripped it up them for the rent and told them that under no circumstances did I authorise any payments and to cancel my account! It seems this happens alot so don’t use paypal!

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:07:00 +0000

I know it’s been a while since the last post but this seems to still be going on. Today I had 7 unauthorised payments from my Paypal account, all to items on Ebay.de.
Sent the form to paypal but like most other victims I have no clue as to how the account was compromised.

By: SisXtian

SisXtian — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:19:26 +0000

Get a PayPal security key and don’t keep any money in your actual PayPal account. Link it to a credit card. Since I did that, I’ve had no worries… at least not with PayPal. :)

By: Kyle Elizabeth Wilson

Kyle Elizabeth Wilson — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:13:23 +0000

Same thing just happened to me! They bought on ebay a pair of baby clothes for $80 and added $20 shipping…then they bought an antique rug for $90 and added $10 shipping. Both transactions show up with Chinese character symbols in the name field in paypal. Very bizzare…I also have a ship to address “Sarah Sexton 8 Broadway Ave Latham NY” …no clue how the eff they did this…and who the eff they are! ughh…i just hope for now i have enough to cover that rent check and bills check that will clear any day now from my accnt. this sucks big time.

By: Gopal

Gopal — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:32:57 +0000

anyone who knows your phone number and mail ID can change your password through forgot password link and change the password unless you keep everything including your phone number, address and email ID a secret. But they are for others to use after all.

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By: Never gone say my name

Never gone say my name — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:44:15 +0000

ha ha ha ha ha i guess thats what happens when people on youtube goto my vids about hacking. I did the same to some other guy. but i dont think i did any of you guys sooooo probably someone saw my video and did it thats funny how lots of people can do it

By: matt

matt — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:38:08 +0000

I just had the same thing happen – the catch is I havent used paypal in over a year. This would seem to rule out spyware. Any ideas?