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Article #8891Re: credit card fraud
From: SMS
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 16:54
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 16:54
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Scott in SoCal wrote: > In message <2%VPl.29959$Ws1.9738@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>, SMS > <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote: > >>> Which is why I don't use PayPal. Don't believe for a moment that just >>> because your PayPal account is not linked to your checking account >>> that PayPal can't make a "mistake" that's profitable for them that YOU >>> have to straighten out if you want to keep your money. >> My friend sold something on eBay. More than a month later, PayPal >> contacts him and tells him that the credit card that the purchaser used >> was stolen, and that he needs to pay back PayPal. >> >> Huh? Isn't PayPal's job to insulate the seller from this kind of thing, >> and the reason they charge the fees they do? >> >> So they say that if he doesn't pay, they will be taking the money out of >> his checking account. He closes that account quickly, and tells them to >> get lost, and they do. > > He's lucky. If he had had any funds sitting in his PayPal account that > he hadn't had a chance to move out yet, PayPal would have simply > swiped those. What's amazing is that there are non-sellers dumb enough to link their checking account to their PayPal account.
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