ID fraud...I was robbed by via paypal

[Mr. Sandman]

FYI,

All the funds were re-paid (I got my $ back in a few days). After talking with an officer that was investigating it he said that internet purchases are still far safer for the consumer then face to face dealings. The most common rip off is when you give your cc or personal info to someone you think you know, (store clerk, waiter, etc) and he/she in turn sells that info to someone who actually steals from you. Also just groaping thru the trash for recipets with data on it is good enough most times. But in all cases the consumer is protected. If you get robbed face to face or your personal items are stolen, you are at a loss.

I would still rather deal with a machine and encryption to purchase my things, knowing that no matter what, even if someone impersonates me and moves or steals my $ I am protected.

[basswipe]

Glad everything worked out.Getting robbed/burned sucks.

[Jimbo]

Just to give everyone a heads up, the PayPal fraud scam is apparently still going on. I opened a claim they are investigating. Here's what happened. I logged in at work, I only use my pc at work, not at home. In email I had one from PayPal saying that there had been a transaction for a DVD-VHS recorder on my account and listing the name and address is was being sent to. I had not used my PayPal account since the last S-B raffle. In the email there was a link you could click incase you did not agree and wanted to get a refund. I clicked it and fortunately, my work network prevented me from accessing the url.
I opened the claim with PayPal and they confirmed it was not them and fotrunately I had not been able to respond to the fraudulent site or I might have divulged the personal or financial info that site was looking for.
Be alert to this stuff, if for no other reason that when you first see you've been scammed it just about gives you a heart attack.

[pops]

good heads up, I receive about 5~6 million dollar lottery wins a day ~ nigerian oil ministry saying I am owed 8,000,000 ~ some bank somewhere i never heard of says my info is going out of date... ....all try to phish ... there was a story on CNN about teenagers in Nigeria whos sole income is from stealing info online and buying gear by doing these scams....

[Raven]

i saw on TV that theres supposed to be a yellow padlock in the right hand corner...and if not it's a bogus site.