The Turkish Paypal hack is a SCAM. learn from my experience
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3 months ago, My paypal account has been hacked and accessed by a third party. the purpose of this post is to warn everybody. don’t be careless and stupid like me. believing everything I watch from youtube.. :D How did it happen?? learn from my experience, listen to my full story…
This is the actual Video that I watched from Youtube:
if you go over to watch the video on youtube, You will see many Positive comments about the product. it is because of those positive comments that I actually believe that I can hack paypal..
So what I did is I downloaded the so-called "software" made by the guy who calls himself ‘t3rminH@cker’ and made sure I had $10 on my paypal account. (this was required on the video description.)
After downloading the software he asked for my password and email address, I gave it to him,. one hour after giving him my password, I was shocked to see that there was a New payment made on my transaction history after I logged in to my paypal account. He actually Used my account to buy a domain at Name.com for $9 and sent me a SPOOF email that I actually authenticated the payment. after that, I did not care,. I thought it was all part of the process of "Hacking paypal".
1 hour after that, an email was sent to me by paypal that a "new email adress" was added to my paypal account. which brought me the conclusion.. "Hey, How can I be so F**kn’ STupid! I gave my password and now, my acccount is HACKED!" I quickly deleted the Email address he added, Changed my password, told paypal about it and Quickly Submitted a Dispute claim to name.com to retrieve the $9 unauthenticated payment.
paypal quickly froze my account, I wasn’t been able to withdraw money and pay for my paypal account. and My status became unverified For 3 days,.
The end of story: Good news is that, 3 days After submitting required Documents asked by paypal, They studied it and gave my account back. the $9 stolen from me was returned by name.com.
- I Learned my lesson on never even ‘try’ to hack paypal again
- keep my passwords private
- Don’t Trust youtube videos easily
- Don’t do unto others what you don’t want others to do unto you
- Don’t be stupid. (toinks) lol
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October 2, 2009
9:48 am #comment-1
“after downloading the software he asked for my password and email address, I gave it to him.”
I am lost here. Do you mean you give away your paypal password?
Anyway, it is a big mistake to give away any of your password for whatever reason.
October 2, 2009
3:25 pm #comment-2
Hi casey, and thanks for the comment.. :) nwei, Yes, I gave him my password, But what happened is.. After downloading the so called “software”.. I opened it, Then a Software window appears, (his own customized browser) then on that “software” You’ll be asked about Your paypal Login information, you have to type it in some kind of form provided in that “software” to log-in to paypal and actually Hack paypal money.. which is of course a Real scam,.
I was led to actually believe it by that time simply because of the positive comments and the “near perfect” rating he have.. I then soon find out that all mostly that commented on that video were either his friends, or another account that he made..
and for the rest of us that were scammed.. our comments were deleted to protect the video and scam more people..
I actually made this post because I can’t see anybody making an action about this,. I want to tell the world about this Valuable lesson I learned,.
and yeah, I got really careless and STUPID to give my password away,. and I can’t believe it myself,.
I just thank god that he only Stole $9 from me,. lols.. he could have gotten my $500 in there.. :D well, He got a chance,. too bad for him,. nwei, I forgive him now,. I just don’t want this to happen to anyone else..
October 3, 2009
2:27 pm #comment-3
Yep, thank god that he only stole $9 from you. The whole situation could be worst. He could have used your money to purchase a lot more digital products from many small online businesses. He gets the products > you file dispute > paypal freezes the money > you get back your money > the owner suffer a lost and you lost your credibility.
October 17, 2009
8:28 pm #comment-4
Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?
October 30, 2009
10:56 pm #comment-5
hi polprav, yeah sure! it’s going to be a big help if you spread the word..
March 26, 2010
2:33 pm #comment-6
Hi! i’m from brasil, thx for this… Nice post! u saved my life and my cash… thx again!
March 26, 2010
6:05 pm #comment-7
no problem dude.. ;)
March 31, 2010
5:22 pm #comment-8
Nice post,hmmm.. i also downloaded it past 2 days,its not working but my cash only$3.90 inside,hahaha~ i think tht’s why he didn’t stole it from me,anyway,i’m gonna chge my password,(sumtimes i feel like stupid wanna hack but been hacked) XD simply gveout your account and password to be a hacker in the same time u actually hacked by hacker.. great experience frenz
April 26, 2010
2:51 am #comment-9
to stop people from hacking into your account just do what i do…. u can get a security key… i now have a security key tolog in with, and it chnages everytime i log in, also the best part is, its a code that gets sent to my mobile phone. Check under your profile page, and in the first coloum look down and you will see security key, click on that and you can set up higher security. I think its under your account settings or account information. This has worked for me… so far according to paypal i have had at least 4 people all from different countries try hack into my account, but they cant cos they know that they need a security key hahaha!
April 26, 2010
3:10 am #comment-10
hey, thanks for the tips rossie. .I’ll do that. ;-)
this is the first time I’ve heard about the security key
June 24, 2010
7:07 pm #comment-11
I have experienced this kind of strategy before -.- Good news is that it’s not “real” or “cold hard cash” which was stolen or as we call it, “hacked” from me. Probably just was some pointless virtual money . You know, kids these days ^_^ Anyway, didn’t want that to happen to me anymore so I don’t really trust anyone else except for close friends and God. and only people interested in earning money online ;-)
Hope this helped.
Hope you earn a lot.
Take care and God Bless :D
July 7, 2010
6:47 pm #comment-12
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33950989/The-Easiest-Way-to-Hack-Paypal
What is this??!!
July 14, 2010
8:17 pm #comment-13
Hi, Elie. Do you mind if I feature this one in my site? :-)
It would be really helpful for all my readers.
Thanks a lot :-)
I’m actually going to feature it using “Featured Links”. No worries, there are no charges involved :-)
Sincerely yours,
Jaja Masorong
July 14, 2010
11:50 pm #comment-14
sure.
August 27, 2010
2:26 pm #comment-15
Oh. But how can you think of entering password on 3rd party software that too some unreputated brands softwares.
September 6, 2010
2:20 am #comment-16
THIS SCAMMER HAD RAN HIS SCAM SINCE LONG AGO, HE DID PAID SOME FRIEND TO COMMENT GUD THING. WHEN I ‘SPAM’ HIM ON COMMENT, HE DELETED MINE,
December 18, 2010
11:01 am #comment-17
I saw that video. You would have to be an idiot to think that would work. He types in notepad, after he runs his supposed hack, that he already refreshed the page. But he obviously did not or else you would have seen him do it. He just had a pre-made phony paypal page that said $300. I can’t believe someone would be so stupid. Not too mention dude can’t type or spell. He probably spent years correcting syntax errors.
If you are dumb enough to fall for that crap, I have some checks I need you to cash for me. Seriously never give out info like that.
December 18, 2010
4:52 pm #comment-18
lol dude. I know what you mean. and I was a total noob at the time. I wanted to “test out everything” but now everything’s over and I already forgotten about the incident. thanks for the advice though.