Paypal fraud - how???
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Had a phone call from Wescot Debt Management his morning asking me to confirm my name and press some buttons.
Obviously I thought it was a scam and hung up.
Googled them and it turns out they are actually a 'thing' so rang them.
I couldn't match the gmail address they had on file but my name, address and dob matched and home phone number - although they didn't have my mobile.
Turns out Paypal have contacted them over an unpaid debt of £856, possibly someone has bought something, paid via Paypal and it's not turned up - possibly a team working together??
Wescot have actually been really good about it and advised me to get onto ActionFraud and get a crime number.
Which I did and fed it back to them, they've now put the claim on hold and raised a dispute back to Paypal.
BUT...
How did they set up a Paypal account with my address? I though Paypal then cross referenced any address with a linked bank account?
I know my actual Paypal account is linked to my bank account - this is as it should be, I've had no alerts to confirm purchases and the account looks fine.
Just wondering how they manage to get away with this s
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Obviously I thought it was a scam and hung up.
Googled them and it turns out they are actually a 'thing' so rang them.
I couldn't match the gmail address they had on file but my name, address and dob matched and home phone number - although they didn't have my mobile.
Turns out Paypal have contacted them over an unpaid debt of £856, possibly someone has bought something, paid via Paypal and it's not turned up - possibly a team working together??
Wescot have actually been really good about it and advised me to get onto ActionFraud and get a crime number.
Which I did and fed it back to them, they've now put the claim on hold and raised a dispute back to Paypal.
BUT...
How did they set up a Paypal account with my address? I though Paypal then cross referenced any address with a linked bank account?
I know my actual Paypal account is linked to my bank account - this is as it should be, I've had no alerts to confirm purchases and the account looks fine.
Just wondering how they manage to get away with this s
t.I had something similar when I lived in France. I had an email from a supplier in Paris about an order for white goods (fridge/freezer/2 washing machines) to be delivered to an apartment address in Paris and to be paid for by my PayPal account when I actually lived in SW France. I emailed back saying it wasn't me then cancelled my PayPal account and went to my bank who were very good and put a marker on my account blocking any payments to PayPal. Never heard any more from the white goods supplier so I assume they also cancelled the order. How the perps got my PayPal details I'll never know as I'd only used PayPal once when I bought something from eBay some years before which required it and had never used it since that time. I've also never used and will not use PayPal again.
So by the sounds of it someone has set up a PayPal account using your details but with a different gmail address.
Easy enough for scammers to get most of your details from compromised sites:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/ if you want to check your own email address.
Easy enough for scammers to get most of your details from compromised sites:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/ if you want to check your own email address.
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