background check website someone posted....

[mustang_00]

someone posted a website last week or a little longer where you can type your name in and it'll bring up "past charges" blah blah. i checked it out. it didn't work. fast forward to yesterday. i get a email from paypal saying i was charged 19.95 from that site. WTF???? there was a few others in the thread that looked up themselves too. Did this happen to you? or is paypal sending out spam these days?

 

[cindylou]

i did , but i didnt give them my paypal info.

wtf? wtf?

 

[heatherrae]

What??? I didn't even put in an email address. How did they get your info?

 

[chewyxrage]

That is really odd. Like HR said, did you give your e-mail address?

Are you absolutely sure the e-mail came from paypal?

Did you login into your paypal account to verify the charges were assessed?

 

[mustang_00]

i didn't put in ANY information besides my name. I just looked at my paypal account history and it shows no activity since june 1st of this year. I emailed paypal and told them about the email i recieved. I think that website we all viewed was a spam site and it'll send a stupid email about background checks. the email came from "[email protected]" i googled it and it said it's a scam/spam email address so who the fuck knows. i took my CC down just incase.

 

[miplank]

its fake...


I get emails in my spam folder all the time from "paypal" saying i was charged $xx.xx for something and they want me to dispute the charges.

Basically, they are phishing for more info

 

[drsketch]

CriminalSearches.com

that ones free, it was listed on MSNBC last week.

 

[cindylou]

How'd they get his email address though? Thats whats odd

 

[chris302001]

CriminalSearches.com

that ones free, it was listed on MSNBC last week.

yep.......my best friend when I was a little kid decided to be a fuck off and dropped outta hs when he turned 16 so I thought......I wonder..........

turns out he has multiple weapons charges.........

funny how people change........

 

[drsketch]

i dropped out when I was 16, got a GED and was a bad boy for a bit..

Now im college educated, home owner, dad, etc..