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Just to give some context, the sender is from 3rd world country and this is a very meaningful amount for them. I got caught in the middle and feel just horrible

Just to give some context, the sender is from 3rd world country and this is a very meaningful amount for them. I got caught in the middle and feel just horrible.

dec0dedab0de 4y ago
how did they accidentally send you money? Are you sure it is not a scam to get you to feel bad and pay them back through another channel before they do the process to reclaim the funds from paypal?
- trescomas 4y ago
  100% not a scam, I bought something from this person before and paid via paypal. They didn't ask to send anything extra, just to help reverse the original transaction.
  - sjsdaiuasgdia 4y ago
    Having a single successful transaction with someone is not much of a guarantee that they will not attempt to scam you in the future. I could even see the initial transaction being a way to find potential victims and establish trust.
  - crazygringo 4y ago
    This is precisely how many successful scams work. They establish a small "legitimate" transaction so you think they're trustworthy, then they "accidentally" send you a much larger amount of money. Then there's a "problem" reversing that larger transaction (as you are experiencing at this very moment) so they ask you to repay the money via a different channel... then as soon as they get that money, the original transaction magically gets reversed as well. Boom, you've now paid them twice. You got scammed. (You may also be having problems accessing your PayPal account precisely because PayPal has flagged you as having received money from a stolen credit card, which is what scammers often use for that larger transaction.)
    - taylodl 4y ago
      This. So much this. The OP is outraged Paypal is preventing them from getting scammed using a well-known scamming technique.
  - roundandround 4y ago
    I think such scams are usually done to get cash from stolen accounts, so even if you know the real owner there may be a scammer involved trying to get you to pay the out of band.

Just to give some context, the sender is from 3rd world country and this is a very meaningful amount for them. I got caught in the middle and feel just horrible.

dec0dedab0de 4y ago

how did they accidentally send you money? Are you sure it is not a scam to get you to feel bad and pay them back through another channel before they do the process to reclaim the funds from paypal?

trescomas 4y ago
100% not a scam, I bought something from this person before and paid via paypal. They didn't ask to send anything extra, just to help reverse the original transaction.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 4y ago
  Having a single successful transaction with someone is not much of a guarantee that they will not attempt to scam you in the future. I could even see the initial transaction being a way to find potential victims and establish trust.
- crazygringo 4y ago
  This is precisely how many successful scams work. They establish a small "legitimate" transaction so you think they're trustworthy, then they "accidentally" send you a much larger amount of money. Then there's a "problem" reversing that larger transaction (as you are experiencing at this very moment) so they ask you to repay the money via a different channel... then as soon as they get that money, the original transaction magically gets reversed as well. Boom, you've now paid them twice. You got scammed. (You may also be having problems accessing your PayPal account precisely because PayPal has flagged you as having received money from a stolen credit card, which is what scammers often use for that larger transaction.)
  - taylodl 4y ago
    This. So much this. The OP is outraged Paypal is preventing them from getting scammed using a well-known scamming technique.
- roundandround 4y ago
  I think such scams are usually done to get cash from stolen accounts, so even if you know the real owner there may be a scammer involved trying to get you to pay the out of band.