My Paypal Account was HACKED!!!

You heard me right, my paypal account was hacked and it was all my fault. It has always been my practice to check the URL of every site I go to, I did not know what happened last night, I did not check the URL so I got HACKED, BIG TIME! Now I know, even internet savvy peeps are not immune to these hackers…

I did call paypal’s customer support but I must have been very unlucky last night because I got disconnected when the agent was supposed to transfer me to the resolution team. So I lost the money that I have in my paypal account, lucky for me, it was not much. I did submit the documents paypal needs to confirm my identity, so now I am waiting for them to give my account access back to me. It was a hard lesson to learn, but I learned nonetheless. Here is the email that I got and the web form that I stupidly answered: (click on the pictures to view full size)

Fake Email

fake paypal

Fake Paypal Form

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January 15, 2008 · Filed Under personal

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10 Responses to “My Paypal Account was HACKED!!!”

  1. peterahon on January 16th, 2008 3:28 am

    hey thanks for accepting my advert. Really they hack paypal, gosh that’s worst.

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  3. tim on January 16th, 2008 3:36 am

    unlucky me.. :( I’ll go check out your blog… thanks

  4. AJ Batac on January 16th, 2008 5:28 am

    Always be careful with ecommerce, ebanking and any sites that involves money.

    Heck, you should be always be careful even if it wasn’t.

    Report it to Phistank.com ;)

  5. rodel on January 16th, 2008 5:48 am

    malas naman bro.. .. hayyy.. till next time nalang bro..

  6. Karlo.PinoyBlogero on January 16th, 2008 9:10 am

    Oh my gulay. Tsk tsk. That’s very unfortunate. That’s why we should always be cautious especially when it comes to personal accounts.

    There are lots of maloko out there. Too bad you learned it the hard way.

    Cheer up.

  7. monkey on January 16th, 2008 10:44 am

    hopefully that’s the last

  8. cyberpunk on January 16th, 2008 11:41 am

    I don’t think the right term is ‘paypal got hacked’. You were a victim of phishing.

    Be careful na lang next time lalo na sa money-related sites (Paypal, Xoom, Ebay) etc. Don’t login using a link from an email and be sure to check the URL first.

  9. tim on January 16th, 2008 12:07 pm

    Thank you all for your sentiments… I was using Firefox, and it did not detect that it was a phishing site. :(
    Yes, the correct word should have been phishing, but I think “hacked” would be the first word that would come to mind if you do not know what phishing is… :)

  10. vertito on February 12th, 2008 2:19 pm

    what happenned to pinoy culture then?

    let’s be more humane here rather than be more technical, be it being hacked or phishing, the worst and unfortunate part is being a victim here.

    don’t let technology changes our character, the author was trying express his terms not trying to spell out terminologies here.

    sorry for you dude, atleast lessons learned.

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