[Kubasarika]

Are you 100% sure that the email receipt isn't fake?
A classic Paypal trick is as follows:

1. You receive an email telling you that you have successfully paid for an item via Paypal.
2. You panic - you've not bought anything via Paypal and click the link in the email to check out this transaction.
3. Link in email takes you to Paypal "look a like" site where you enter your username & password in an attempt to login and check the transaction.
4. Your account info is now compromised and somebody can indeed now access your account.

Log into Paypal via the front door and make sure a transaction has actually taken place.

[SaraKonradtt]

Long story cut short.

Step dad finds an email in his inbox that is basically an invoice receipt from paypal saying that a transaction has been successful of £300 paid to the recipient for an iPhone bought off ebay.

He didn't buy this phone on ebay so he knows for a fact his account was hacked and now he's £300 out of pocket.

He's reported it with paypal who've still yet to get back to him.

Thing I want to know is can we get police involved? As the invoice receipt has the delivery address of this guy who's bought this phone with my step dad's account. And if we can, what do we need to do?

[pIp83Uns]

Long story cut short.

Step dad finds an email in his inbox that is basically an invoice receipt from paypal saying that a transaction has been successful of £300 paid to the recipient for an iPhone bought off ebay.

He didn't buy this phone on ebay so he knows for a fact his account was hacked and now he's £300 out of pocket.

He's reported it with paypal who've still yet to get back to him.

Thing I want to know is can we get police involved? As the invoice receipt has the delivery address of this guy who's bought this phone with my step dad's account. And if we can, what do we need to do?

Nah, no reason for you to contact the police...paypal/ebay will be able to tell if hte account was hacked through logs and such and since it is thier fraud department who will be refunding that 300, the onus will be on them to go after the thief... at least that is how it would work in the US.

[SaraKonradtt]

Nah, no reason for you to contact the police...paypal/ebay will be able to tell if hte account was hacked through logs and such and since it is thier fraud department who will be refunding that 300, the onus will be on them to go after the thief... at least that is how it would work in the US.

Lol.

Not sure if it works that way here so I need a little input from the UK people.

[TimoPizaz]

Lol.

Not sure if it works that way here so I need a little input from the UK people.

Then don't be expecting the police to do anything.

[Moupponge]

Call the cops. What they did was a crime. Report it. If for no reason other than covering your own arse.

[baskentt]

Change your password every 60 days, and use a very long and hard one to figure out, for example my passwords for paypal and other stuff like that are about this long:

*******************************

No joking either.

[vRmy0Fzg]

Passwords should normally be at least 9 characters long and contain a random amount of letters and numbers. Never use true words.