Paypal scam? whats going on. NEED HELP

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raboyto2

New Member
Alright heres whats going on.

Alright, so a few years ago i had a paypal account, i used it for 2 years with my ebay account. I stopped using it, i canceld it, and now i tired opening a new one. So i go to open a new account, everything is going fine, then i had to "confirm" my account threw my email. In the email i got, it said to click on the link, and sign in......wait a minute? i thought paypal and ebay never ask you to click a link and sign in? This was a email account i opened 5 mins ago, so its not spam. I noticed the link is to a site thats www.paypal.com/row.... etc... I was like shit!..im getting screwed here.

so i open a new browser, type in www.paypal.com and press enter. I make a compleatly new paypal account and hotmail account. Right when i press confirm on my paypal registration, "row" pops up in the URL

paypalsignup.jpg




i didnt know what to do from there... in that browser i went to their help section and clicked on "paypal spam emails" ... and i got this. I knew something was up when i saw what it said.

paypalrowhelp.jpg




I got a friend to go to www.paypal.com on their comptuer and go to the same help section. and this is what he sees on the REAL paypal website.

paypalnorow.jpg




If i go www.paypal.com or www.paypal.com/row...its the same thing. i even tried something other then row and it still works? (i dont know if thats normal or not)

paypalsuck.jpg




I followed Golks advice and getting some spyware software like Spybot and Ad-aware (found alot, go rid of it, some came back...uninstalled limewire and deleted some torent download programs...did the spyware check again, and non returned. I ran the spyware software in SAFEMODE) thanks golks, got rid of some stuff i never even knew was there, but not my problem.

Can someone help me out and tell me whats going on here?
 
It definitly is a fake. I would get a live cd of linux and create a paypal account with that.
Wait for buzz to come around and help you clean up your computer.
 
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 3:32:45 PM, on 1/8/2007
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)

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C:\Program Files\Canon\CAL\CALMAIN.exe
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C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgcc.exe
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i am taking a complete GUESS as this... but here it goes haha:

012 could this be something?

018 i couldnt just take 1 guess... so im adding in these also
018
020
020 (files missing) ?? im guessing thats no my problem, but would that be a concern?

was i at least close?? :P
 
Alright. This isnt right at all. I tried signed up for new accounts on paypal at 2 friends house's. BOTH friends URL changes to www.paypal.com/row..... when i confirm my information.

At friend number 1 house: I sign up, and it changes to row, and it stays on the row website. Have a 6 month old computer with payed anti-virus and anti-spyware software on his computer (all up to date reguarly).

At friend number 2 house: I sign up, it changes to row when i press confirm, then if i go anywhere else on the website, row isnt in the URL anymore. 3 year old computer, with no anti virus or spyware software for the last year.

Whats going on?
 
Its strange that they managed to get it on paypals domain, hats off, that is clever. (unless someone can explain how they did it.)
 
Tbh m8, you are lucky you saw it when you did otherwise you could be in some deep sh*t right now!
 
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