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Beware of jovelyn.agib@yahoo.com and +886277064035 - Paypal Hacker!

October 14, 2011

Beware of this number: +886277064035. This number called me at around 5 in the morning. I was reluctant to answer it coz who would do that? Then I thought of Popsy. But he will never call at such ungodly hour! So I woke Peter up and made him answer the call. He couldn’t understand why the lady at the other end was trying to ask for my bank account # for some remittance. He gave me back my phone and I asked what this call was about and who was calling. I can only make out the name Kristin and that she would like to verify my bank account number. I immediately grew suspicious so I hung up the phone and went online.

I checked my bank account, everything looks okay and started paying for all my bills before my account gets hacked and all my money gone. Then I checked my email. I saw several from paypal telling me how to change my password, that my password has been changed, and that I sent money to jovelyn.agib@yahoo.com. From the image below you can see how the hacker was trying to learn how to reset my paypal password at 4:27 and he did it by 4:46. And by 4:50 he already got my money!

 

This was the screen shot of my inbox. The time stamp is in EDT. It was between 4:00-5:00 am Manila time, Oct. 14, when this happend.

OMG! I immediately went on full-blown panic mode! I went to paypal and couldn’t log in! I tried several times to no avail! Then I calmed down so I can focus. I followed paypal’s instructions on how to change my password. Changing the password would entail me to verify my complete bank acct # tied up with my paypal. Hence, the phone call at 5am asking for my bank account #. Finally, I was able to get into my paypal, made all the security changes and did a dispute. It’s under investigation now.

I think this is not just one hacker person.  I think there is a whole company devoted to hacking coz the lady I spoke with clearly sounded like Pinay but really knows how to speak like an American, like those call center agents. And when I investigated the number  +886277064035 used, I found this: http://www.78910.org/886277064035_ID898098.html. Apparently, there’s a bunch of other people who got calls from this number pretending to be someone else.

The lesson here for me is to create a whole new other email account solely  for my paypal (never use email addresses I use for people to contact me), connect it with a bank account that is solely for paypal, make difficult security questions, and don’t share this information to the public.  I’ve always been paranoid about phishing so I seldom open emails or take phone calls that I don’t recognize. It’s good that paypal responds to investigations immediately. And whoever this +886277064035  or jovelyn.agib@yahoo.com / Jovelyn Agib is, she or he will meet her karma soon. I hope this doesn’t happen to anyone else so please beware. 

 

P.S. Here are some more useful tips from Fleire Castro, one of my online friends:

Online transactions security tips –

NEVER publish your bank account details.
NEVER connect your publicly known bank account details on your Paypal account.
NEVER use obvious answers for your security questions.


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Previous Comments

Scary! I’ll change the email associated with my paypal na. This means we also have to change adsense and other services which pays us using paypal :(

Posted by dementia at October 14, 2011, 5:50 pm

this is really pretty scary + why they’d resort to this kinds of scam beats me..but you are right, she will meet her karma soon!

Posted by jared's mum at October 14, 2011, 5:55 pm

That’s scary. I have been thinking of using another email address solely for paypal purposes. I should have done it sooner!

Posted by Prudence at October 14, 2011, 6:36 pm

Too many stories of Paypal hacking I’ve been hearing these days. This is the second one from my Facebook friends.

But my friend got his money back. Good thing you checked your accounts right away.

Posted by Gem at October 14, 2011, 7:35 pm

Dementia, I know… It’s such a hassle but we need to do it. :(

Jared’s Mum, I’m sure whoever that person is, he/she will.

Prudence, I should have done it sooner too. :(

Gem, my other friend was called by same number just tonight asking for her birthday naman. This means they’ve found a way to get her bank details and are now trying to get past security! :O

Posted by sexynomad at October 14, 2011, 7:43 pm

This thing happened to my brother two weeks ago, his Paypal was hacked and all of his money was sent to a certain jafargarenmonte@yahoo.com. There was no attempt to change the password or probably the hacker tried to do it but was of course hindered the fact that he did not know the bank account details of my brother. My brother filed a dispute. Paypal asked my brother to provide documents that would prove that he is indeed the owner of the account. My brother uploaded some scanned documents to comply with Paypal’s request. It took 10 long days for the Paypal investigation to finish and for my brother’s money to be brought back.

Posted by pastilan at October 14, 2011, 7:49 pm

Omigosh… thanks for sharing your story, pastilan. Looks like the hacker has been getting busy all this time. Paypal should really use more secure features. :(

I hope to get my money back too.

Posted by sexynomad at October 14, 2011, 9:15 pm

My money just got refunded by paypal today. Thank God!!!

Posted by sexynomad at October 15, 2011, 12:41 pm

I’m so happy dahil nabalik ng Paypal ung money mo sis. Grabe ngaun mga scammer at hacker, nag lelevel-up na! Kaya mag double ingat na talga. :)

Thanks for sharing this sis! I just posted the email and number sa FB and Twitter ko pra malaman din ng iba. :)

Posted by Manila Barbie {Dhadha} at October 16, 2011, 1:22 pm

me too. just Yesterday… same email i received from paypal. she was able to get money, P500, luckily i was able to withdraw my fund last Thursday to be used on my vacation. I looked for her in FB but i can’t find her name. I google it and found this post

Posted by Mayer at October 17, 2011, 1:08 am

Hi Mayer,

I’m so sorry it happened to you too. Did you file a dispute with paypal? If you do that, you can still get your money back. Good luck!

Posted by sexynomad at October 17, 2011, 6:02 pm

Paypal returned the money.. I recovered my account and set new password but i was hacked again last night.. lucky that i already withdrawn new payments… he got P82.. also tried to send 50 USD but im sure walang fund…. this time, the primary email address was changed so i can no longer access it… DAMN!

Posted by Mayer at October 21, 2011, 8:51 am

This number is in Vietnam and is used by skype for most (if not all) calls to the Philippines from other countries. I had a call today from the USA and it showed this number.

Posted by Dave at November 21, 2011, 9:57 pm

My mom and I were on our way home when I received a call from this number so nagtaka agad ako since international number. Good thing di kami magkarinigan since nasa jeep ako kaya binaba ko agad yung phone. Di na rin ulit tumawag. Upon coming home, I immediately Googled the number and landed here on your site. Buti rin kaka-withdraw ko lang ng money from my PayPal nung Sunday so zero siya ngayon.

Posted by Kat at December 6, 2011, 4:37 pm

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