ID fraud...I was robbed by via paypal

[Mr. Sandman]

I am embarressed to admit this as I fell for a phishing scam. While embedded in my work I recieved an email that was a phony paypal email. It looked exactly like the paypal page, every detail except one. I clicked on a link and logged in to modify something.

2 weeks later

This past weekend I started getting emails from paypay saying payments were made when I was not using the account. People were thanking me for a purchases I was not making. While this was happening I was being spammed by thousands and thousands of emails (I guess in an attempt to mask my paypal confirmations).
I was able to log into paypal change my password and security stuff and notify paypal of what happend. They are investigating it and they said i would be reimbursed for all the unauthorized payments in a few days. I have been sending them all the stuff that was sent to me. Most of the payments were cash transfers (from my checking account) to accounts in Germany and China with some purchases of what appears to be gold from Austrila. All I want to say at this time is it was a signifcant amount of money.
It all happened between 1:00am and 5:00am on Sunday Morning. I noticed it about 7:00am on Sunday Morning.

Normally, I am not fooled easily by this kind of thing and I am usually anal about security and I feel kind of stupid but let me say it looked really ligit.

This is a heads-up. It can happen to you. Keep an eye out.

I plan to go to my bank and open a separate checking account and only keep 50 bucks in there just for paypal and transfer fundxs toand from this account as needed so even if this happens again somehow I am protected somewhat.