peacocksuit
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Hi. I have signed up for the forum to get some help.
On 9th Jan 15 I noticed a paypal email receipt email in my inbox. When I opened it I saw it was for £10 skype credit. I seldom use Skype and when I do its just for the free web cam service. I never purchase credit.
I also had an email from skype to say my purchase has been successful. Strangely the Skype account in question was one I signed up for back in 2007 and never used much. So I have to retrieve the password though my email account to get access. When I did I saw that the account has been used to make calls to a mobile phone in the Ivory coast.
What's strange is that in order to get the payment through they must ave known my paypal password as well. My paypal password gets changes regularly and was only recently changed to a new one before this happened.
I changed the passwords to all my most important stuff (email paypal etc) straight away.
What is really strange is that I have never had anything like this happen to me before, but this week I had been using a VPN for the first time (Giganews) to connect to the internet. It was a free trial so I thought I would give it a go to see what it was like, more out of curiosity than anything else. Iv stopped
Im really worried that someone had my paypal password and worry what else they might have. Am I now open to further attacks or identity theft or the likes?
I had only recently done a full refresh of my laptop and pc so I doubt it could be because of a virus.
Please advice. Thanks.
On 9th Jan 15 I noticed a paypal email receipt email in my inbox. When I opened it I saw it was for £10 skype credit. I seldom use Skype and when I do its just for the free web cam service. I never purchase credit.
I also had an email from skype to say my purchase has been successful. Strangely the Skype account in question was one I signed up for back in 2007 and never used much. So I have to retrieve the password though my email account to get access. When I did I saw that the account has been used to make calls to a mobile phone in the Ivory coast.
What's strange is that in order to get the payment through they must ave known my paypal password as well. My paypal password gets changes regularly and was only recently changed to a new one before this happened.
I changed the passwords to all my most important stuff (email paypal etc) straight away.
What is really strange is that I have never had anything like this happen to me before, but this week I had been using a VPN for the first time (Giganews) to connect to the internet. It was a free trial so I thought I would give it a go to see what it was like, more out of curiosity than anything else. Iv stopped
Im really worried that someone had my paypal password and worry what else they might have. Am I now open to further attacks or identity theft or the likes?
I had only recently done a full refresh of my laptop and pc so I doubt it could be because of a virus.
Please advice. Thanks.
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