Been hacked. I know there are some smart people here...

[JonB]

Hi,

My wife had her PayPal account hacked yesterday (don't know how). Anyway we found out when she had an order confirmation from John Lewis for £499.99 for an iPad air 2 paid via PayPal. They were going to collect tomorrow from a Waitrose in Stratford masquerading as my wife.

John Lewis have kindly gave us the email address they provided for their email confirmation.

I'm wondering what kind of retribution we could take? I have to be mindful that they have our home address though...

Is there anyway we can find out who the person behind the email address is? I know there are some smart arses on here with regards to the internet etc.

Thanks kindly.
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[bamt]

That seems like an ideal one for JL/Waitrose to wait for them to come to collect and either get the police in or at least get them on CCTV for identification.
Though I guess it's quite likely that the person who turns up isn't actually responsible, but been paid a bit to run an errand.

[bugeye_bob]

also change all passwords

[Andy_Pagin]

Best retribution is to get the police involved. A punch up in a major department store won't go down well.
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[Irn-Bru]

If JL are like other places with C&C they would deny the pickup due to them requiring ID due to it being a PayPal payment, that's how it's been for me anyway. Suppose there are ways around it and I bet most of the time they forget to ask anyways.
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[JonB]

JL have already cancelled the order. So likelihood is no one will turn up. In all probability all I can do is report it to the police.

I could put the email address on a spam list I suppose?
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[CaNsA]

[JonB]

What's the difference?
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[b422063]

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[b422063]

Genuine question: Where do you find these definitions?

[GhostRider]

Should have just contacted the police. Same thing happened to bro-in-law. They ordered £1000 worth of goods for pickup in tesco. Police nabbed them when they came to collect. Fucking morons.

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[Ste]

Herp de derp.

I wonder what other links she's clicked in e-mails and filled in all her account details to verify her account because of the recent security upgrades.

If she uses the same password for other accounts then now would be the time to change them.

They're idiots for ordering from John Lewis rather than using more conventional methods for cashing out a paypal account. If they've got any sense and opsec (which I wouldn't count on given that they tried to order from John Lewis with the account) then the email address will be a disposable burner account that can't be traced back to anyone.

Rather than spending time and effort failing with some type of retribution, spend that time and effort trying to edumacate your wife in the art of not being stupid.

[Nash GT]

Prince George from Nigeria said he can only wire me the unclaimed fortune if I send him all my personal details and a copy of my passport along with signed affidavit, am I at risk too ?
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[Ste]

To increase the security of your paypal account...

You can add two factor authentication to your paypal account that sends you a text message with a six digit code each time you (or someone else!) tries to login to your account. https://www.paypal.com/securitykey/

Symantec VIP Access is another option for adding two factor authentication to your paypal account. https://m.vip.symantec.com/home.v

[dydey90]

Try using a password recovery on the email address and see what happens?
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[b422063]

Just for security's sake, you can also add TFA for Dropbox. I add it for every account I can.

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