What's Next?
By sulsisels
@sulsisels (1685)
United States
June 30, 2010 2:29pm CST
I'm telling you, how much more can they do to me!! As if I haven't had enough problems with my computer in the past month with hackers from having my email account hacked to shreds to MyLot account being deleted every single day for 1 week or better to a virus that luckily enough I was able to get rid of, NOW today I get this letter from PayPal saying my account has been suspended due to unusual activity with too many transfers? WHAT?? It goes on to tell me that I have to immediately click on this link to have my account reinstated, which of course would mean giving all my information again. At first, I don't think scam and I click on the link to check it out.Thanks to my new AVG Internet Security that I installed last week,I was stopped and told that this is a fraudulent site made to look just like PayPal but in fact is not. Thank God for AVG..I am really getting sick of all this nonsense and wish these idiot people would drop off the face of the earth. Get a life, do something, but leave innocent people just trying to enjoy the internet ALONE! Has anyone else received this letter from faux PayPal? Just beware out there because "they" are out there. I wonder if old security Norton would have picked this up?
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6 responses
@marguicha (215428)
• Chile
2 Jul 10
I have had paypal letter about 3 times in these years. I never answered them. But I did check at my acount and it turned out that paypal had not sent a thing. Do not open paypal letters from your mail. Specially if they ask you for passwords
@tomitomi (5429)
• Singapore
1 Jul 10
Hi sulsisels!
I'm really sorry to hear this. I can tell you that these attacks will never end. In fact they may just become worse. I've been experiencing them now too. Perhaps not as often as I used to have. Knowing that my antivirus and anti spyware are working real hard to protect me, makes my sleep more enjoyable. We have to stop it! Yes Norton does as long as we continually update it. Good luck!
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
30 Jun 10
Sweet never ever open anything like that and send it to paypalspoof.com
When ever you get them do not open Paypal will not ever send anything like that out to you
I am so glad that your AVG warned that as that could have lost you all your Money
@nobbsy123 (851)
• Australia
1 Jul 10
I had problems with spyware and viruses also. I had a spywareSoft virus that wouldn't let me run the antivirus program because the virus said that avast is a virus and blocked the application. Then I tried system restore then the virus blocked that also. So I had to go into safe mode and do the system restore. It was a pain in the neck to say the least. Once I had my paypal account hacked into and I got the money back luckily. But that was going back a few years. I wouldn't open any email in your junk folder even if you know who the sender is. It's blocked for a reason say if your friend sent you a file via email to your email and he/she didn't know it was a virus or whatever it would be put in your junk folder.
@redkathy (3374)
• United States
30 Jun 10
Norton might pick it up now but not if it were back a few years. AVG is good I have used it. I am currently using Avast, has less config issues than AVG.
As for email phishing, years ago I received a similar email with yahoo mail. Now Gmail is my preference and has been very good at filtering those out so I no longer worry about them. However yahoo mail is a different story. Seems the email hackers have tripped up yahoo mail by sending those phishing sites as an attachment letter with a link. Lucky for me I know what those look like and delete them right away.
@countrychick9213 (15)
• United States
30 Jun 10
Actually its a good thing you dont have norton anymore. I had a desktop once and had norton on it. One day when I was booting it up my computer told me that I had to update norton through symantec so I did so and followed all the instructions to a T. The next day I went to boot the computer and found out that the symantec program that I used to update my norton was a virus and it totally messed up my computer to where I had to take it to best buy.
