Huge PayPal Negative Balance. HELP!

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heavyarmz said:
I Fell victim to a scam like this Recently too. Guy was Here on blackhatworld saying how he needed a paypal cause it was banned in his country and he'd pay 20%. He Had me sending invoices for $1,000's of dollars but it was immediately fishy so I only sent one and cancelled the rest and sure enough it got charge backed.

I'm negative $1,000, I called paypal right away and told them what happened and they said they'd contact their head office about the situation. I havent heard back from Paypal since and its been months but my account is still in the negative.

I detatched my banking info / credit cards and swapped out my adress. I Read somewhere that since they don't have your SIN they can't actually hurt your credit score. If they do end up calling me and comming after me for the money I'll just tell them I got scammed. I have family in the local police department I've already told.

$5,000 however might be another story. However since you are in the Phillipene's I doubt they'll come after you.
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Did you open a shitlist about this 'incident' ?
 
I really appreciate all the replies. I also thought the buyer is my "employer" because it was a week before the money from my Paypal got successfully transferred to my bank account. 2 days after I forwarded the money the buyer filed a dispute and got refunded.

I know I am stupid for not thinking before doing the work, I take that. And I'm not making any stories here. I actually still have a copy of my conversation with the scammer. I can't attach a link here since I just joined this forum to post this.

We also reached out to a lawyer and he adviced us to ignore the emails and calls from PayPal if they start asking for the payment and just wait for a proper complaint if they'll take my case to court.

To those who were asking where I saw the job post, it's on onlinejobs.ph

I see no hope of clearing my name from this mess but I still tried calling to eBay hoping they'd catch the seller and instead have him pay the debt, tho it sounds impossible now.
 
One of the oldest scams going, yet people still fall for it.
OP there is little you can do except report the incident to the authorities and state that you were scammed.
 
Asif WILSON Khan said:
One of the oldest scams going, yet people still fall for it.
OP there is little you can do except report the incident to the authorities and state that you were scammed.
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I was not aware of this type of scam. And I just recently discovered that they were doing it since 2012. Found the same cases as mine, still victimizing Filipinos and the scammers are from Ukraine. If only I can reach out those victims and ask what happened to them after 6 years .. but their stories were posted on random forums with no way of contacting them.

europemaverick said:
dude relax. No one is coming after you. They won't sue you or do anything else. Philippines is known for many such cases (based on what I have read) and no one gets sued. They will end up paying hundreds of thousands to recover measly $5000 so do not worry and relax. I remember once I got a legal mail from some company because I cracked their software and I panicked like hell. They even had my name and address, were from Netherlands or Switzerland.

As long as you don't lose real money from your credit card or bank account forget about this shit and go to sleep.

Also I think Philippines was rubbed the wrong way by US govt. No way in hell they will let an American company do jack about something like this. But yeah remember this as an important lesson.
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I really do hope that is what will happen to me. But thank you for this. I'd like to believe what you said are true.

ContentKingpin said:
Seriously though, you should've given it a thought before doing that, why would someone hire you and entrust you with $5900? I'm sure seeing that amount of money made you blind and went with it without thinking for a second. IMHO, Paypal and eBay have every right to refuse your request, after all, if the contact details you have of that seller are indeed fake, how can they know that you're not the one behind the whole thing?
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I can provide them copy of my conversation with the scammer and the receipt on Western Union. PayPal already saw everything but still refuses to clear my name and told me to contact eBay. It's hard to give eBay my proofs because they don't have email option for contacts. I've called them couple of times already and they filed a report to investigate the seller. It's just that they don't want my proof sent to them.
 
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Shie.Chie said:
I was just used. I had know idea they were up to no good. I was also scammed. I was referring to the eBay seller, not the buyer. I wanted the seller to be investigated and instead of me paying the debt, they should be the one paying for it because they already had the money. I know I was stupid to trust those people and did not think of the consequences that might happen but I would just like to say I was not part of the original plan of scamming people. I was just used.
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Did you not think about this sounds too good to be true? I mean come on who pays someone to receive money for them in traceable, reversable paypal and then wants non refundable transfer by WU (probably with fake details)?

Just a simple thought should have made you realize that this cannot be legit. Never seen any such legit proposals. Sure there may truly be a JV where one receives the money, but they are usually then in the US where the other partner can not easily accept money.

Either way, nothing you can do YOU owe the money. It was your account, your name ... Sure you can report the person you sent WU to , but seeing how you feel for that I doubt you have any legit info, real email let alone a phone number.

Now, after we got the official explantion out of the way, remember you are in the Philippines, so it is unlikely they come after you and will just close your account.
 
theRevolt said:
Did you not think about this sounds too good to be true? I mean come on who pays someone to receive money for them in traceable, reversable paypal and then wants non refundable transfer by WU (probably with fake details)?

Just a simple thought should have made you realize that this cannot be legit. Never seen any such legit proposals. Sure there may truly be a JV where one receives the money, but they are usually then in the US where the other partner can not easily accept money.

Either way, nothing you can do YOU owe the money. It was your account, your name ... Sure you can report the person you sent WU to , but seeing how you feel for that I doubt you have any legit info, real email let alone a phone number.

Now, after we got the official explantion out of the way, remember you are in the Philippines, so it is unlikely they come after you and will just close your account.
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I have my real name and address on my PayPal but did not put my SSN. For identification number, I used my government-issued ID but did not include from what agency that is.
 
heavyarmz said:
I took a look and hes banned so he prob scammed others too.
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Still report it and provide the details to an admin/moderator. There is a fair chance the same person will be back on here trying the same thing again, so any information you can provide is useful.
 
This is a classic money mule scam. You got played plain and simple and there's really nothing you can do about it other than to either pay the debt or close your account and face collections. Trying to track the criminals down in a foreign country is going to be extremely difficult and if they're smart they were using a VPN and or Proxies the whole time so it's unlikely you'll be able to track them down.
 
Allright, so tell me something.

So if some of scammers would send me 6k and if i know thaht, there is some chance, that i can buy bitcoins of all the money?
of course the pp account would be created new one.



btw, this is my first porst. Bonjorno to everyone.
 
Something similar happened to me..

Just got hit with several chargebacks totalling $6000+ on Paypal.

I buy and sell Bitcoins on Localbitcoins & Paxful.

Have been doing it for awhile, first time I receive chargebacks.

I think it might have been same person with multiple stealth paypal accounts.

I lost the dispute. -$5500 now. Fck paypal. I aint paying em sht.
 
OP you could try creating new paypal and fake identity, then contact the scammer and tell them you are interested in working with them and when they send you cash, you run with it away! Voila! You have your 6k back.
 
adako said:
OP you could try creating new paypal and fake identity, then contact the scammer and tell them you are interested in working with them and when they send you cash, you run with it away! Voila! You have your 6k back.
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But it's probably dirty 6k and he was just used as white horse. So the police will trace the money.
 
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