Webact text scam

[ldjones]

Hi 

I received a text suppossedly from Paypal stating that an amount of 320.12 was going to be taken from my acount by a company called Webact Limited.  I foolishly clicked on the link and completed all the details, including bank details before I realised that it was not from Paypal.  I have now blocked my bank card, credit cards  etc.  Is there anything else I need to do.  i have also contacted Paypal too. I feel such a fool as they now have my dob , home address etc.  Can they use this for an identity fraud or are they just after my bank account and money ??

thanks for any information you can give.

[DPCreations]

Did you change password for bank accounts?

[Vm2]

Phone my daughter ,told me not to open it as it was a scam .Hope no one got caught out with this?

[Prescopj]

I have just received an identical sms message. Thankfully, I thought it might be a scam, so I logged into paypal on a different device to check my account before reacting to it. I can see why people are taken in by this scam. Sorry it happened to you.

[Rico535s]

Hi all. I almost got caught out by this scam too. Would have been really embarassing as I am in the I.T. profession, and deal with security issues on a day to day basis. Luckily, I had the foresight to google the ow.ly prefix to check it out. So, all of you non-tech people out ther, please beware of these crimnal scum.

[Lazi_Minx]

I've just had the same message. But smelled a rat instantly, as I've never heard of the company.

I'm changing my password anyway, just in case and have reported it to paypal.

[Suswus]

I was just scammed as well. Got straight onto my bank and cancelled my card. Luckily the scammers didn't get any of my money. 

[Dove2015]

I've only just joined pay pay so I'm a bit new to it & I had a text today asking me to cancel £320 it said from Webb act Ltd So started to fill in name, address & date of birth also mothers maiden name at this point I smelt a rat so stopped , glad I saw this as never dealing with PayPal before wasn't sure

[verkrist]

just got same text. thankfully, I thought paypal never texts only emails so...didn't act on it aside from goggling the WebAct company and saw this thread

[DurhamGeorge]

Just had the same text message. Panic at first then decided to check my account from my PC and no activity.

And then did a search for Webact and ended up here. 

Mighty glad I kept my cool ......this time :O)