Paddle isn't scamming us, we're being charged by software companies via Paddle. It's just a subscription platform, they're not taking your money any more than PayPal is when you use PayPal checkout. These charges are for software subscriptions - mine was for CleanMyMac X, a common Mac maintenance tool. Please check if you've signed up for any free trials before you contact PayPal, it will save a lot of time and frustration. If you do contact PayPal, for God's sake be polite to the person you're talking to. Customer service is incredibly hard on your mental health on a normal day, and this is the biggest shopping season of the year. They are probably dealing with way too much already. Being polite also gets you better service - if a customer service agent has to make a judgement call about whether or not to refund one of these charges, they're absolutely not going to say yes to someone who is rude to them. I've worked in e-commerce payment and fraud for many years and I can tell you from long experience that a charge you don't recognize is far, far more likely to be something you signed up for and forgot about than a scam. Scams do happen, but there are entire teams of people who look out for these things. This thread was started a year ago, if this was a scam PayPal would have seen this thread and their fraud team would already have dealt with it. It would be extremely bad for PayPal if it was publicly known they allowed a scam to go on for so long, and they already make so much money off us that they don't need to steal money from random users. You're pretty much safe from scams as long as you practice basic online safety.
