Fraudulent email

[trudy66]

Just received an email supposedly from Paypal  - notified me of a payment for $69.99 made to nerd _toolshop@bigpnd.com. I checked my Paypal a/c and no such payment. I stupidly clicked onto the transaction no. in blue print and it did something because I couldnt get back into my email a/c. I have changed passwords on everything now. Is there anything else I should do? I guess they have had access to all the info on my webmail page. Freaking out!!!

Paypal checked the seller name and the transaction no. - of course all fake - my antivirus said all well. I am thinking this has come about from the chinese scammers that I purchased from recently.

[trudy66]

thx for that - I didnt think it wuld be a simple matter and I had n clue on what to do so your advice is extremely valuable. It came frm Baltimore I discovered. I ahvent heard of housecall but I'll get nt it now. Really appreciate the advice.

[*tippy*toes*]

Try Malwarebytes Antimalware. It is also very good. There's another one I use called Rogue Killer but you have to know what you're doing with that one or you could break your computer. 

[trudy66]

TT - thats what Ive used - cleaned out 514 threats - hope I'm all secure now.

[*tippy*toes*]

514? WOW! If nothing else, your computer should be running a bit faster!

[trudy66]

yep - impressive haha

[doobelly]

They sure are damn busy bass-tuds! 

The first one freaked me out (I'm sure it was that tool thingy place too) but paypal said not to worry; just forward to them.

Now I immediately delete when I see them and, BTW,  I have never visited, let alone bought anything, from a Chinese site, and I never will.  It is simply not worth the risk and it all  looks mostly like nasty junk anyway...I've seen the things come up in ebay's "suggestions".

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[trudy66]

I'm wary too DB but the listing had the item as held in Chifley ACT. Ive certainly become a much wiser Ebayer in the last couple of weeks and much of the new knowledge is thanks tot the generosity of the forum members on here.

[cathyjoyjoy]

What is "cleaned out 514 threats"?

[go-tazz]

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@cathyjoyjoy wrote:

What is "cleaned out 514 threats"?

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It's the terms used by a anti spyware and anti virus programs to denote how many "threats" were found and

cleaned,(removed from their computer).

A high number of them could be something as simple as tracking cookies as some programs see them as spam.

Once you've run one of the programs it will generally give you a list of "threats" that they have removed,(so you

can see whether there was anything malicious running on your device).

The main threats when "attacked" are Trojans and Keyloggers,(both can infiltrate a system and it will allow the

ones behind the attack to check what happens on the device and take advantage of your info).

The other one is phishing Emails to tempt you to click on a malicious link so that you give them your details

and passwords whithout realizing,

[andstyle13]

I haven't read all these comments so the likelihood of what I'm about to say just might be repetitive. But because I've dealt with these spam emails for 2 years now, there are some things you need to be aware of. If your name is not mentioned at the start of the email it is a scam. Pay Pal will address your name. Secondly redirect the email to phishing@paypal.com
Lastly check your PayPal account
Once you have done this delete the email but never click on their link