As Mark Derrick notes, it will read 'Receipt for your payment to iTunes'. If you buy stuff on the iTunes Store via PayPal, the email subject line doesn't read like that. Yes, they have received emails which say 'Receipt for your payment to iTunes Store'.īut that's where you have to look more closely.

Yes, people have seen their PayPal accounts drained of funds. Look more closely, though, and it doesn't quite add up. I called security at PayPal and was told a large number of iTunes store accounts were compromised.'' One targeted customer told us, 'My account was charged over $4,700. At least one group of scammers has found a way to charge thousands of dollars to iTunes accounts through PayPal. 'Reports are appearing this morning about a major security hole in iTunes accounts linked to PayPal. There's a scattering of reports that iTunes accounts have been hacked - hello TechCrunch, with ' Fraudsters Drain PayPal Accounts Through iTunes', which says (a trifle breathlessly) that: Problem is that they seem to have gotten greedy, which has made their greed surface. Phishers have figured out a new way to transfer themselves loads of money and make it look legit: make it look like the charges are coming from the iTunes Store. In the meantime, the opening of this article isn't supported by the facts we now know, so we'll strike it out. See the follow-on post for more on this - and what the scammers' motives might be. Update: based on some of the comments here, it's clear that there have been purchases made very recently on the iTunes Store which have used people's login details - though apparently all linked to PayPal accounts.

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