Victim of a scam on paypal

Magpie3177
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Hi, my name is Margaret A Adler, a while back I met this guy on a dating site called meet me, We talked for a long time from the dating site, then we moved on to texting and emailing eachother, He talked about wanting me to hold onto some money for him, I told I did not have a bank account I had a PayPal account so my sister's could send me money, after a while he asked me for the information from my PayPal account, I gave it to him, so somehow this woman Valerie came into the picture, she had talked to some guy <removed>, my friend said he knew all about everything would be okay, so she was told by <removed> to put the money in my PayPal account, he said everything will be fine, NO IT WAS NOT OKAY. I had sent some money to my friend through money gram, in the end my PayPal account was over drawn by $395 dollars, I'm on disability I can't pay it, there are no solutions for people who get scammed, plus they sent me an email about applying for another cash card, why in God's name would they do that if a person has a negative balance, it's stupid and rediculous, I apologize for my wording

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kernowlass
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@Magpie3177

 

So you money laundered for a scammer and were surprised when he did a chargeback  Smiley Surprised

 

Well you are responsible for that neg balance so you either pay it or your paypal account is limited.

 

Paypal offers some buyer and some seller protection but to accept funds from a stranger then send them on using another payment platform is in my humble opinion pretty stupid.


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