Received money from an unknown source, can I get scammed?

HustleTong said:
Terrorists send out illegal money this way lol
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The question is how the terrorists get his account information?

By the way, when are the terrorists start giving out the free money?

Maybe they have a money machine - Just like the Federal Reserve Bank... Lol :)
 
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happens to me 2 years back it was a very large order no info what so ever no reply
i left the funds untouched for some weeks before ultimately refunding it. i would recommend you ty being in touch as much as you can first before taking any decision.
 
It's better to call off your bank and explain it to them. If I was going to sent accidentaly to someone money I would f*cking appreciated much if he was going to return the money.
 
EMAOneBillion said:
Recently I have received money from an unknown source coming from a bank from another country than mine.

I never had any job with the country where the money came from.

This account where I have received the money is the one I use to get payments and make payments (although I never used to pay directly with the card, I make the transactions via Paypal).

So pretty much I know I should not spend any money but I'm more worried about the idea of being scammed by someone.

Can these things happen because my account, email or any other information has been compromised or most probably is just a mistake from the bank or the sender?

Anyone has ever faced such a situation before? What would be the best approach?
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Money was sent under your name on your account? If not is a mistake that payeer did it or someone from your clients copy-pasted wrong the account number. Check with the bank and see what name was and check your past clients. Maybe someone passed your bank account to someone else. Or just check your emails: SPAM / BULK and see maybe someone sent you some money from a recommendation or something and expect to deliver.
 
Personally if that happened to me.. I would run to the ATM.. as it is not your fault you got gifted with that money.. If you receive a $100,000 Gold/Diamond crusted Rolex watch delivered to your door will you send that back also!!
 
Let's imagine you didn't realize you suddenly had 1K more and simply spend it...how can the bank force you to give it back? If it was someone else's mistake etc. But well, that person might complain and someone might reach out to you eventually. Had this situation only once, it was about 70 USD (yeah, not a lot, but still), few years ago, made as a deposit to my account (even weirder), but nobody ever contacted me about that.
 
There could be legal consequences if the amount has been transferred using a stolen card or a terrorist account. If someone intentionally sent you money through a stolen card, they will ask you to return it to some other account and keep a percentage of it as a reward. If such a thing happens, you should inform it to bank instead of returning the money yourself. The terrorist accounts are monitored by FBI and interpol to find their contacts. So, if they've sent you by mistake, then you should prepare an excuse for worst case scenario.

If it's just a mistake and the sender chooses to ignore it, then you can happily spend the money yourself. But in any case, it's better to wait a few days.
 
Pavan Teja 1 said:
There could be legal consequences if the amount has been transferred using a stolen card or a terrorist account. If someone intentionally sent you money through a stolen card, they will ask you to return it to some other account and keep a percentage of it as a reward. If such a thing happens, you should inform it to bank instead of returning the money yourself. The terrorist accounts are monitored by FBI and interpol to find their contacts. So, if they've sent you by mistake, then you should prepare an excuse for worst case scenario.

If it's just a mistake and the sender chooses to ignore it, then you can happily spend the money yourself. But in any case, it's better to wait a few days.
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What terrorist is stupid enough to leave a paper trail.. They use bitcoins...
 
Mudundo07 said:
What terrorist is stupid enough to leave a paper trail.. They use bitcoins...
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They send money through bank accounts and even distribute currency notes. There are even some networks that print fake currency. They need to work with normal people who don't even know what bitcoin is, so they send cash. They can't send bitcoin to everyone in their networks like media personnel, sleeper cells, agents, messengers etc. We are a lot more familiar with bitcoins because we are IMers.
 
Cash it. Close your bank account. Open a new bank account. Enjoy. :D
 
Mudundo07 said:
Personally if that happened to me.. I would run to the ATM.. as it is not your fault you got gifted with that money.. If you receive a $100,000 Gold/Diamond crusted Rolex watch delivered to your door will you send that back also!!
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Logic of a thief.
 
Talk to your bank and the best way is to give it back.
 
Once someone used a hacked PayPal account to pay and send me large tips on another platform. The amount was tip was hard to digest but I was happy. Later that platform support contacted me to refund the money I received from that person.
 
WatchMaker said:
The question is how the terrorists get his account information?

By the way, when are the terrorists start giving out the free money?

Maybe they have a money machine - Just like the Federal Reserve Bank... Lol :)
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That's not free, it's the pice to be scapegoat lol.
Since the same logic will be used, when you got investigated. why they sent you money if you don't have connection.
 
If you let your imagination roam, you can come up with many stories :).

Perhaps someone sees a political rival in you, and sent you money from some corrupted account (owned by some fraudulent company), and later will use this transaction to defame you.

Or it is some scammer connected to some dubious business, and later they will blackmail you, saying that unless you repay them three times as much, they will connect you to the dubious business with the transaction, and give details to police....

Or your relative (someone you never met) died in some foreign country and left a letter and instructed someone to send you the money.

But this was all only my imagination :). The truth is, however, that banks issue account numbers in a way that always at least 2 digits differ in each account number, and therefor the chance for making a mistake is unlikely ;)

Enjoy the money and worry later--or just enjoy it!
 
this is a pretty typical scam as well. They do a transfer with bad check/account to your account, your bank shows that the money is in there, and they contact you to ask you to "return" it and let you keep one hundred for your inconvenience. Then you send them money and the check/account bounces so you are out whatever money you sent them.
 
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