Posted by sandi42 on 12/7/06 4:06pm
Msg #164625

Please number for paypal

got an email from them someone charged charged my account for a new dell laptop and theres no number on the email.

Reply by Mike Photon on 12/7/06 4:10pm
Msg #164626

Dont worry. Most probably it's one of those scams that has been going around for a while.
Did the email give you a link to login to your account too? Don't click on it if it did.
goto https://www.paypal.com/ and login to your account from there and see if there is any activity there. I'm about 99% sure you will see no such activity there.

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 12/7/06 4:17pm
Msg #164632

Sandi
I get these all the time. Do not click on any link and enter any info!

I always forward them, complete with the headers to [e-mail address]

Reply by Lisa Prestegard on 12/7/06 4:47pm
Msg #164643

Don't click on the links within that email at all... just forward the email to [e-mail address].
Happens all the time.

Reply by Lisa Prestegard on 12/7/06 4:47pm
Msg #164644

Don't click on the links within that email at all... just forward the email to [e-mail address].
Happens all the time.

Reply by Lisa Prestegard on 12/7/06 4:53pm
Msg #164646

Don't know why that posted twice n/m

Reply by MonicaFL on 12/7/06 5:34pm
Msg #164647

I had that happen too only it was for a camera. I sent an e-mail to paypal and they responded as follows: paypal NEVER addresses their clients as "Dear Customer" or paypal member - they always use your name. I made a copy of the e-mail that was sent to me and called the sheriff's office and they came out and took a report. I did this so that if it showed up somehow on my credit card I had proof that I had reported it. I also called the credit card company and told them NOT to pay anything that supposedly came to them from PayPal. They flagged my account. I also, that same day, had my credit card company call me and ask me if I had "just purchased something for $163.64 in Romania". I told them no and not to authorize it. I also then put a hold on my credit card and debit card and went to the bank the next day and had the numbers changed. Might be a lot to do to contact everyone that I regularly used my credit card with but it was a whole lot better than having to call the credit card company everytime someone might have made an unauthorized purchase. Just thought I would share this.

Reply by Margaret_FL on 12/7/06 10:55pm
Msg #164688

I got an email too but it was someone that had stolen my paypal account to purchase
a laptop for $1800. When the charge was rejected from my bank from my debit card, they tried to send it through as an ACH, I had to stop payment on that and the bank told me
the stop payment was only good for 30 days. They then told me that I could not do another
stop payment on the same item. I closed my bank account and had to open a new one.
This happened in October and I am still having to deal with problems. I had to close my bank account sudden with checks that still had not cleared. There was spyware on my computer that captured my key strokes and all my passwords. I now have installed Spy Sweeper. It found 84 spy programs and I run it every day, no more spyware.

Reply by CaliNotary on 12/7/06 11:54pm
Msg #164698

Good lord, you don't know how to use Google?

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_contact-phone

I typed in "paypal phone number" and clicked on the first result and it led me right to it.

Reply by BarbaraL_CA on 12/8/06 12:03am
Msg #164700

duh! - lol - n/m

Reply by CaliNotary on 12/8/06 12:06am
Msg #164702

Re: duh! - lol -

I seriously wonder about this chick. Between her elementary school writing skills and her complete inability to show any sign of firing synapses on this site, I don't know how she gets through a stack of loan documents.

Reply by MichiganAl on 12/8/06 2:08am
Msg #164726

Sandi42 has been like this since the day she crawled in.

Never uses Google, never uses the search button. Why bother? That's why this board is here, so people can get answers without any effort themselves.