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May 07, 2007 09:13

Apparently I'm stupid, but not as dumb as I could have been ( Read more... )

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d_c_m May 7 2007, 14:35:10 UTC
Hey those things are tricky. I never reply to them. Best to just go into your PayPal account and see what is up. Which is usually nothing. Sometime tried to hijack my eBay account a while ago. It is fine now.

Remember, people who send out these things will burn in a special pit in Hell. Honest.

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buzzermccain May 7 2007, 15:29:30 UTC
Phew! Near escape!

For future reference, never give *anybody*, official or otherwise, your PIN. They make you be the one to set it for a reason- even the folks at the actual paypal don't and *shouldn't* know it. You should always be the only person who knows it.

-K

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tooth_and_claw May 7 2007, 16:36:57 UTC
Mark got hit with this, too. He suggests filing an identity theft report with the state police, just for prosterity's sake.

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sapphohestia May 7 2007, 20:10:44 UTC
Don't feel too bad - lots of people fall for it:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000852.html

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