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PAYPAL VIRUS WARNING

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Kim from Sandhurst

Kim from Sandhurst Report 15 Jul 2005 22:17

Joanne, What the hell were you meant to have purchased for that price?? :-)) If you actually receive it, hope your insurance is 'New of Old' !! As it must be damn good for that amount of money! pmsl! Kim

Val

Val Report 15 Jul 2005 19:41

Wouldn't we all at that price it would need to be gold and never need to charge again lol

Jo

Jo Report 15 Jul 2005 19:21

Val, pmsl. If its that good I would divorce hubby!!! lol.

Val

Val Report 15 Jul 2005 19:19

Joanne for that price it better be in Gold lol

Jo

Jo Report 15 Jul 2005 19:17

I have just had one aswell, I was furious and still am. It says I bought a sex toy also and I have been charged $1951.00. I checked my acount and thankfully no payment has come out. Absolutly disgraceful.

Val

Val Report 15 Jul 2005 19:15

Some one on general board had message also so I am nudging this up so they see it

Kim from Sandhurst

Kim from Sandhurst Report 15 Jul 2005 14:39

When I received it I was furious as I hadn't bought anything on ebay yesterday so assumed my son had and wanted to know how much he's spent on my card! that's why I opened it. Norton thru up a very large red box for me tho! Did a full scan and nothing was found thank goodness Kim

Shirli

Shirli Report 15 Jul 2005 12:59

Hello - I had this this morning too. It stated that I had bought a sex toy. Oh pleeeeeeeeeeeese. I opened it and then sent it to the spam option. Hope I have'nt done any damage. Hope no-one gets caught - Shirli

Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 15 Jul 2005 12:55

I think the grammar gives it away. But it's a real pain when whhat should be a legitimate mail turns out to be hijacked by a virus. The standard format for Paypal receipt-headers is: Receipt for Your Payment [to XXXXX] where the bit [in square brackets] is optional. The critical bit is that it's a receipt 'for' not 'of'. (If, as often happens when I type, your 'of' was really a 'for' with the letters transposed and a lost 'r', then the problem is a bit bigger.) Christine

Kim from Sandhurst

Kim from Sandhurst Report 15 Jul 2005 09:03

I received an email this morning from Paypal 'Receipt of your payment' me being stupid opened it! it is a virus. It's size is 24kb. Kim