I have few bills I need to pay and Im not able too until this is cleared up. And I have to call my credit card companies .
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April Chung
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09-10-2006 10:46
I login to my PayPal account today. On Sept 7, 2006 someone from Russia tried to access my account. I was asked did I give them access to my account? Click no. I had to change my password and my email address.This as never happend until the somone hacked secondlife data base on Sept 6, 2006.
I have few bills I need to pay and Im not able too until this is cleared up. And I have to call my credit card companies . _____________________
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April Chung
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09-10-2006 10:48
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Lewis Nerd
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09-10-2006 10:49
If that email said "Dear Paypal User"... then you have possibly been phished, and should try and change the details immediately.
Paypal know your name from your account details. Why wouldn't they personalise it? You should never, ever click links in emails. I always go straight to the site by typing the address in the URL box, if they want to tell me something they'll tell me there, not in an email. Lewis _____________________
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Cristiano Midnight
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09-10-2006 10:49
I know someone else from SL that this happened to this weekend as well. This is a serious problem.
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April Chung
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09-10-2006 10:54
I it wasnt a paypal letter. I was trying to purchased something and I had to login to finish the transaction and thats how I found out.
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Cristiano Midnight
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09-10-2006 10:56
If that email said "Dear Paypal User"... then you have possibly been phished, and should try and change the details immediately. Paypal know your name from your account details. Why wouldn't they personalise it? You should never, ever click links in emails. I always go straight to the site by typing the address in the URL box, if they want to tell me something they'll tell me there, not in an email. Lewis It is not a phishing scam - these alerts are displayed when you actually log into your Paypal account. _____________________
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April Chung
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09-10-2006 10:58
It is not a phishing scam - these alerts are displayed when you actually log into your Paypal account. Yes alerts are displayed when you actually login. _____________________
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Cristiano Midnight
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09-10-2006 11:01
April,
Do you use Paypal as your payment method for SL? _____________________
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April Chung
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09-10-2006 11:06
I had pay pal setup with sl for very short period. and cancled it.
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Lewis Nerd
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09-10-2006 11:08
I just logged into Paypal... couldn't see any alerts or warnings, but I don't use Paypal to fund SL.
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09-10-2006 11:09
From PayPal.
Security Advisory: When you log in to your PayPal account, be sure to open up a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and type in the PayPal URL to make sure you are on the real PayPal website. For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, please review the Security Tips in our Security Center. /Tina _____________________
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April Chung
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09-10-2006 11:11
No I did not get that message. If you read what I type earlier in the post . I was in the middle of purchasing some software.
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Cristiano Midnight
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09-10-2006 11:11
I had pay pal setup with sl for very short period. and cancled it. That seems to be the common denominator. _____________________
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April Chung
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09-10-2006 11:12
That seems to be the common denominator. please explain? _____________________
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Cristiano Midnight
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09-10-2006 11:12
I just logged into Paypal... couldn't see any alerts or warnings, but I don't use Paypal to fund SL. Lewis You would only have the warning if attempts had been made to access your account. _____________________
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09-10-2006 11:14
I had pay pal setup with sl for very short period. and cancled it. Maybe LL notified Paypal and Paypal have put some extra security measures in place for those that have registered accounts with LLs. I have also just checked my Paypal account, which is not registered with LL and didnt get any extra security questions atall. hth a bit _____________________
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Cristiano Midnight
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09-10-2006 11:21
please explain? The other person who had their Paypal account accessed from Russia used Paypal as their SL payment method. LL has not defined what payment information exactly was stolen - I imagine it was the Payment info that was on file. Even if you cancelled it, perhaps it is still in their DB. _____________________
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Lewis Nerd
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09-10-2006 11:24
You would only have the warning if attempts had been made to access your account. True... just eliminating that possibility, that's all... so maybe our hacker gang is from Russia if there is a correlation between the sudden rise in Paypal alerts from SL residents who use Paypal to pay to play. Lewis _____________________
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Ketra Saarinen
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09-10-2006 11:38
It's possible that the specific payment info was not compromised, but the basic info was.
So all they would have would be, User Name1 Email: [email]john@hotmail.com[/email] Payment Method: Pay Pal User Name1 Email: [email]jane@yahoo.com[/email] Payment Method: Credit Card If someone uses the same e-mail address for SL as they do for Pay Pal, that would explain the attacks against Pay Pal accounts but no credit cards being charged. _____________________
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April Chung
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09-10-2006 11:47
I hope everyone in sl get this posting and start checking their paypal account. You dont know how freakin pissed I am right now.
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KittyKatt Kerensky
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09-10-2006 13:13
It's possible that the specific payment info was not compromised, but the basic info was. So all they would have would be, User Name1 Email: [email=john@hotmail.com]john@hotmail.com[/email] Payment Method: Pay Pal User Name1 Email: [email=jane@yahoo.com]jane@yahoo.com[/email] Payment Method: Credit Card If someone uses the same e-mail address for SL as they do for Pay Pal, that would explain the attacks against Pay Pal accounts but no credit cards being charged. I'm sure this is the case as I received the PayPal security warning as well even though I do not make payments to SL from this PayPal account or have not purchased any lindens or land from LL using this account. _____________________
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Myopia Cataract
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09-10-2006 13:18
There are 654,000 residents. Having something happen to two of them can easily be coincidence. It sucks to be violated, but try to keep some perspective.
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Obic Malaprop
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09-10-2006 13:24
There are 654,000 residents. Having something happen to two of them can easily be coincidence. It sucks to be violated, but try to keep some perspective. I dont think it is a coincidence at all. April, if you cancel your paypal I'm not sure it's wiped out of the database considering if you are a paid member that has cancelled your account, your credit card info is still in their database. Ever wonder why the number of residents shoot up but never go down? It's because even cancelled accounts from years ago are still being counted. So cancelling your account does not remove your cc info from the database, I doubt it means your pay pal account is deleted as well so basically the only thing cancelling your account does is keep you from playing under that char again unless you pay the fee to re-activate. They shouldn't do that at all! If someone cancels, give them a week at max and then wipe all of their info off the database. If that person has a problem with that, they shouldn't have cancelled. We don't even have options to delete our credit card information if we decide to downgrade either so what advantages do we get from cancelling? none. _____________________
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Techzen Omega
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09-10-2006 13:27
Myopia Cataract,
I think April posted this as a warning to others seeing how the attempt to access her paypal was the day after the break-in to the data base here in SL. Iyt is easy to make a connection between the two. And IMHO a smart thing to bring this to the attention of fellow SL residents. _____________________
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April Chung
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09-10-2006 13:29
I dont think it is a coincidence at all. April, if you cancel your paypal I'm not sure it's wiped out of the database considering if you are a paid member that has cancelled your account, your credit card info is still in their database. Ever wonder why the number of residents shoot up but never go down? It's because even cancelled accounts from years ago are still being counted. So cancelling your account does not remove your cc info from the database, I doubt it means your pay pal account is deleted as well so basically the only thing cancelling your account does is keep you from playing under that char again unless you pay the fee to re-activate. They shouldn't do that at all! If someone cancels, give them a week at max and then wipe all of their info off the database. If that person has a problem with that, they shouldn't have cancelled. We don't even have options to delete our credit card information if we decide to downgrade either so what advantages do we get from cancelling? none. PayPal has limited activies on my account . So I cant make any purchases. I cant delet delet my credits or cancle the paypal account. The only thing Im able to do is report it to my credit card companise. Im still pissed off. _____________________
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