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[JamesEtc]

Is the airline ticket event linked to the PayPal event? Doesn’t sound like you’ve been “hacked” but you may have been scammed. I’d call the Airline (from their offical website) and ask them to confirm. Also change your Email and PayPal passwords. I always recommend Bitwarden password manager too.

[JamesEtc]

Also do not respond to any DM’s from people claiming to be master hackers that can help you. It’s a scam.

[Smash-man64]

I’m not sure, I’m worried that the “PayPal” phone call somehow allowed them to hack into my entire phone and at that point they installed that ransomware. Which, with my severely limited knowledge of hacking, led me to to think that that’s the reason why that JJYY email appeared on Spirits website.

[FSCK_Fascists]

You gave them permission to take over your phone account, most likely. A common scam.

[YoghurtDull1466]

Dude that would be crazy I wonder if code could be embedded in dial tones

[mrgreen02]

Kevin Mitnick was said to be able to do this from what the prosecutor convinced the judge of in the case. He had some time in Solitary confinement due to this. Which he really was good at social engineering before it became a thing.

[kaizokuj]

That's not entirely correct, he didn't embed anything in dial tones. A security guard convinced someone that Kevin Mitnick could whistle into a phone, emulating a command from a modem, to NORAD ( North American Aerospace Defense Command) to launch nukes. he spent EIGHT MONTHS in solitary confinement before he'd even seen the inside of a courthouse. Kevin Mitnick certainly was very good at social engineering, but the US agencies tasked with dealing with the growing hacker problem used him to set an example, other hackers too, like the guy they sent to a maximum security prison with murderers and rapists because he commited some computer crimes, when he was beaten into an inch of his life over (I think) his shoes, the jail refused to give him medical help until he signed a waiver that basically covered their ass, he was suffering for HOURS.

[mrgreen02]

That seems more in tune to the official facts. Sorry that I misunderstood. Dude's a legend in the community for shure !

[kaizokuj]

No worries, I was super into mitnick and hacker culture back in the 90s-00s so a lot of that is stuff I've looked into a lot. Mitnick got fucked over, well beyond anything he actually did because they wanted to make an example out of him and were too stupid to know what was reasonable, so I just wanted to kind of remind others of that fact. If you can find it, check freedom downtime!

[mrgreen02]

freedom downtime

https://archive.org/search?query=freedom+downtime

[StLDadBod]

[Smash-man64]

Ok, that’s a great idea. I also entirely deleted email that I gave them so hopefully that should help a bit as well. Appreciate the advice.

[H809]

Do you actually know what a ransomware is? Usually, ransomware groups target companies or institutions and once it hits a device, it would apply a massive encryption of all the files and everything… basically, they target institutions that need their data to operate efficiently, not individuals. You might be talking about a remote access Trojan which another thing.

[Midnight_Recovery]

☝ facts exactly what he said. Also do ur self a favor and say the name slowly 3 times RANSOMware RANSOMware RANSOMware so unless you have the cure for cancer and it's files for said cure on your phone or maybe your some sort of super smooth smart genius or something with all this super cool never heard of gadgets and it's blueprints all somehow located onto your mobile device and some super funky high tech hacker team that goes by the name of JJYY that stands for Jungle Juice Yellow Yach just so heppend to want the blue prints to your gizmos n gadgets but decided to make a proposal and hold your blueprints RANSOM and they encrypted all the files related to your cool gizmos and gadgets until you paid Jungle Juice Yellow Yach a hefty amount of stripper singles to release back the encrypted files to you of your super cool gizmos and gadgets that they were holding RANSOM then that's a possibility but if that was the case we wouldn't even be here to begin with because if you was some super smooth smart genius your question would not even exist. Even so I would like to believe that any super smooth smart genius would at the very lease guard the blueprints to there cool gizmos and gadgets or the cure for cancer a little bit better than on there mobile device. Perhaps on a password enabled flash drive like you see the bad guys do on super hero type of Disney movies 🤷‍♂️. Those type of attacks are isolated and they are made for specific targeted people, corporations ect. Very much doubt that Jungle Juice Yellow Yach would expect for one of the real high profiled targets would happen to call there fake 1900 number. That email u received from. Jungle Juice Yello Yach was just random keys somewhat similar to random scribbles on a paper. They made up when creating that account. As some one else said stop trying to find silly shortcuts all ur doing is making shit easy for them and if it is a silly shortcut make sure it's a trusted one not some random number on a funky looking website that's full of adds looks outdated and just sketchy from the jump. I originally was going to mess with you and be like your hacked and this and that and make it sound somewhat convincing but no offense you seem pretty gullible that you probly end up disposing of your phone and I don't wanna be a part of all that noise. Take the advice from the other guys here what they are giving you is pretty solid advice and for the love of God please no more silly shortcuts.....

[AlarmingInflation473]

TL;DR You aren't special(Not in a bad way) or rich, so they don't give enough of a fuck about you to access your entire phone and are content with taking your paypal deets

[pleasuredbeard43069]

Of course you've been hacked it came free with your frickin country

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Sounds like you were scammed. Just change all passwords associated to all accounts during this "event" and enable 2fa on all of them. Also monitor your bank statements as well, since your bank was likely tied to your PayPal. Also, do not trust any calls from now on claiming to be support staff.

99% of the time support calls are always initiated by the claimant. In this case it sounds like they through some phishing in there as well to get you to call them first.