What most people don't realize is that while you're being tied up on When they have this information, they can use your PayPal account / bank account / credit card to rack up unauthorized charges. The most obvious part of this scam is to get you to login to your PayPal account and/or ask for your password. Switching you in between "agents", claiming they are "examining the problem". When this is done, they will then tie you up on the phone for as long as possible (sometimes for hours), When you call the fake PayPal technical support, they will ask to connect to your machine to "check things over". That! Here's What Really Happens When You Let Cyber Criminals into Your Machineīased on my experience in dealing with this scam and similar scams like it over the last 6 years, it goes WAY deeper than handing over your PayPal login and financial information to scammers. From there, they were able to acquire all her financial information, including her bank accounts and credit cards attached to her PayPal account.īut, as I've mentioned many times before - this scam goes much deeper than The mistake she made was calling the phone number in the email, where she got in direct contact with scammers instead of PayPal. Unfortunately, the email that Kathleen received was incredibly convincing. Of course, the real PayPal will never, ever ask to connect to your machine in order to login to your account to "check things over." Microsoft tech support scam this time, scammers in India are posing as PayPal agents. Something is definitely not right! Can you PLEASE help!? "
I've also tried to access my credit cards online, but I keep getting an error in my web browser. I need to have the remote access removed from my machine as it's my life line.Īs an elderly lady, I can't get out and need to use this machine. I've already called the real PayPal and they reversed the charges, but now They also tried to open a credit card in my name!Įasy Net Experts, I am scared to death that the scammers still have access to my machine and all my financial information. In the last 24 hours, the scammers have tried to purchase $1800 Australian dollars worth of cosmetics from a website I've never heard of, and a $250 Home Depot gift card. I then realized that the phone number I called (displayed in the fake invoice email) wasn't the real PayPal, but At this point, I figured something wasn't right and so I hung up the phone. After that, they started asking questions about my bank and credit cards. From there, 'PayPal' connected to my machine and then had me login to my account. The people I spoke with had a very thick Indian accent.
Flash forward to January 8, 2020, and I received another message stating that if I don't pay the original invoice ($399), I'm going to be charged an additional ' $500 late fee,' and subsequent 'fees' if I don't take immediate action.
I have no recollection of this, so up until now I've kept deleting the emails, thinking they were sent in error. Here's how it happened: beginning some time in March, 2019, I received invoices from PayPal claiming that I paid for some kind of technical support for my computer.
I really need your help! I have been scammed by fake PayPal technical support.
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