Guys: About that Election Day hacking... PLEASE BE ON ALERT.

[calimary]

GUYS: About that Election Day hacking... PLEASE BE ON ALERT.

I'm posting this here, too.

calimary here. I do not know if this IS part of the results of that hacking, BUT:

I got an email this morning that alerted me that my PayPal account has been limited. It started asking for all the usual information of the kind you do NOT want to have hackers and other nogoodniks to have.

I became alarmed and called the PayPal people on our landline, according to the phone # on my monthly statement.

They looked into things and confirmed, yup, that email is from nogoodniks.

The reason I became alarmed and suspected a link to DU was because, immediately before Election Day, we were all advised that only star members could interact all day.

Of course, all day on Election Day, we were hobbled and silenced by hackers.

The day before, I decided to make sure my star membership was maintained, and made a small payment ... via PayPal.

PLEASE BE ON THE ALERT. I don't know if this has anything to do with the hacking, but it sure is suspicious, time-wise.

[flying_wahini]

1. Thanks for the heads up

I will watch my paypal info...

[GentryDixon]

2. This happened to me a few weeks before the election.

I logged into PayPal and found there were no transactions I could not account for. I am sure they were depending on me to click on their link to see why I was limited. I reported the email to PayPal as a scam.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. I have received an increase in "Get your 50 dollar rewards points" emails.

I did tap into one of them, but it looks like my zonealarm blocked it.