Ripped off by geek through f****** paypal

[Dowding]

I received a dodgy looking email today rom "vivogame", a company that allows you to purchase in-game currency for MMORPGs from what I can make out. Basically they were asking me to confirm a purchase made through my paypal account. Coming from a gmail account I dismissed it as spam, but checked my paypal account anyway. Unfortunately this showed two transactions with this company for £110! I've had these disputed with paypal, and they are now refunded, but I'm baffled as to where they got my details from - particularly the password. It means either my machine is infected with a key press trojan (I use a hardware firewall and up to date anti-virus software) or they have access to a 3rd party database somewhere.

I've had to change passwords for everything from amazon accounts to internet banking and am considering wiping my machine and starting again.

How embarrassing - ripped off by an Eve Online nerd!

[indy007]

Use SwagVault for all your isk needs.
I <3 chinese farmers.

[Shuffler]

Better get to the bottom of the problem... if you have a keylogger.. changing passwords is useless till you have rid the trojan.

[AquaShrimp]

You'd have to be a huge nerd to spend 110 pounds on in-game mmorpg currency.  A gargantuan nerd in fact.

[indy007]

Originally posted by AquaShrimp
You'd have to be a huge nerd to spend 110 pounds on in-game mmorpg currency.  A gargantuan nerd in fact.

Depends on your perspective. 110 pounds comes out to something like 5 billion in game currency. That a good 6 months to a years work, many hours a night, every night...

or you click a button, swipe a credit card, get your game monies, and go play.

my time is worth way more than sitting around farming, but I still want the good toys in the game.

[1K3]

This is another reason why Aces High is the best cheap entertainment out there...

[indy007]

Originally posted by 1K3
This is another reason why Aces High is the best cheap entertainment out there...

Yeah pretty much, but it's air quake. Longest term investment is a 262, which are disposable once you get good at high ENY fighters. If you grab 3 or 4 fields... doesn't matter, game will reset eventually.

Eve has some really cool stuff that a lot of other games can't match.

If I need some instant gratification, Aces High it is.
If I want something long-term, skill trees, massive fleet battles, then it's Eve.

Can't really compare them because it's 2 entirely different skill sets. AH2 is all hands on, tangible skill. Eve is tons of planning with a few minutes of fury.

[Dowding]

A scan for spyware using my anti-virus found nothing. But then it wouldn't if it missed it coming onto my system I guess. I'll download another.

if you have a keylogger.. changing passwords is useless till you have rid the trojan.

I only use this machine and my work desktop (and that is behind a big corporate firewall etc). I'm starting to think a 3rd party has had a breach.

You'd have to be a huge nerd to spend 110 pounds on in-game mmorpg currency. A gargantuan nerd in fact.

Not if it was someone else's hard-earned.

[Yknurd]

That'll teach you for being gay.