A friend asked me on Facebook to receive a PayPal payment for them and bank transfer them the money, as they couldn't get their account to work. Once I had transferred the money the payment was marked as unorthorised and the money putting my PayPal account into negative funds. The situation is open for dispute but I don't know how to report that this is fraud
yup same things as me, but my case is now with the debt collectors but we are waiting on the reply of action fraud before they do anything. but as you say it is going to take time!
absolutely nothing, Facebook, PayPal and Bank did nothing to help me, I reported it to action fraud and have heard nothing, they just say it was my fault, I gave them the money, I still feel very stupid, In have unfriended my cousin, whose account was hacked and I'm in debt for over a grand, I wouldn't fall for it again good luck Steph
nothing has come of it. action fraud and the ombudsman sided with the bank saying i transferred it. paypal have given up chasing me so i opened a new paypal with a new card as they blocked my old paypal and wouldn't let me in. even though they said they had the name of the person they couldnt do anything about it and i had to take them to court i couldnt be bothered with the mither
I paid it because PayPal were threatening me but I have ended up in debt because of it, my husband is disabled so we only have my wage and so its hard The only excuse I can give is that they caught me after a long day at work and they were actually posting replies to me on her Facebook page I unfriend people now who get cloned or enter to many of those daft competitions or like posts like the poorly children I am a very aware person, they wouldn't catch me again
they were threatening me as well and told where to go.. when i had a call with the debt collectors i told them what happened and to be fair to them they referred it back to paypal because paypal didnt give them the full story - that it was being investigated for fraud. im sorry to hear about your husband, and i absolutely get how hard it is, but now youve paid it its not likely youll get anything back as they could see it as you accepting the blame but i get why you did it to get it out of your hair. these people are scum they really are!
The best person I’ve spoken to were the debt collector! He apologised I’d had so much trouble getting through to PayPal and gave me an email address for me to send all my evidence. I had screen shot all my PayPal ‘chat’, hacked messenger, PayPal Twitter and copied my official complaint email (never replied to me apart from the automated rubbish) also action fraud and send it to him. PayPal call have stopped for the time being thank goodness. It’s so worrying.
