I had $700 in total sent to my account, which ended up being fraudulant cash. Anyhow, when paypal saw this, they debited that amount out of the account, leaving it at -$700. (I had transferred the cash to my bank account after a day or so as I sure as hell didnt want someone to somehow steal it (guessing a password)).. Anyhow, paypal keep asking me to topup the account, but wont give me the access to do so! My account remains frozen, while the ask me to get money in it! I have sent them countless emails for them to at least accept payments... but no.. instead they keep moaning about me puting money in there while not allowing me to do so.

If the well known paypal attendant could help me out on this one, it would be great! Thanks yall.

ima little confused....if you deposited $700 in fraud cash to your bank account from your paypal account, and paypal wants this money back....don't you think u should give it back???

maybe im missing something..........

That is exactly what I mean! I am wanting to give the cash back, but they will not allow me to do so because my accounts STILL remains frozen!

And BTW, I didn't deposit the $700, a few customers did, which added to a total of $700

ah....gotcha ;)

ya that's a pretty mind boggling sitch....waiting for the paypal guy might be the best bet (i hope u emailed them too :) )

Countless times :)

Just so you know, I have been waiting for some action to be taken for about.. oh a month or 2? :angry:

Do the paypal support staff hang in these forums at all?

Originally posted by faculty
Do the paypal support staff hang in these forums at all?

Ya, Damon from Paypal hangs out here. Doubt he'd be here at this hour though

Are there any paypal staff on MSN or any other IRC like system?

I'm not saying that you should be dishonest and that, but what if you don't pay it back? Did paypal say they'd take legal action against you or something?

Well no... I mean it isn't my fault that someone gave me fraudulant funds. But the things is, I do wish to use this paypal account to again collect payments of those whom wish to pay by paypal, or already do! I have lost about 50 accounts due to not being able to provide the paypal gateway I am supposed to, and I think enough is enough!

(I can prove these 50 clients I have missed out on).. Just for informational purposes.

Can't you open another account?

Actually in the beginning, how could a fraud takes place on the Paypal network ? Opening an account there isn't all that simple, with the account not being activated until you are charged $1.50 or so and only activated after you enter the security code found on your credit card bill. Of course, if someone stole the card and also sold your credit card bill to enter the key to activate the account. The email address would be tied to that credit card.

Of course, to get chargeback probably means that the customer signed on the web hosting account, use it and decided he did not want to pay and say it is fraud.

I understand that the Paypal policy is that if you do not have prove of delivery via one of the courier company package, as a vendor, you are just unsecured. So much for all the security on Paypal.

Perhaps, it is better off to get out of Paypal if you can. Lose a few customers through it is better than being bitten twice.

why dont u try pming this demon guy from paypal that someone was mentioning?

demon :laugh:

and you've been waiting for some action after 'some months' ?

I ask because I have had some (small) problems with paypal --- but mainly because I'm curious

did you have any outcome ?

Hi faculty,

I dropped you a PM. I need the account email address to see what the issue is here.

Thank you for your patience.

Originally posted by dragonhawk
demon :laugh:

Damon is now known as the Paypal Daemon. If you need him, just type:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/paypald restart

and he'll be there! :stickout

Hi lightnin,

I can swear that I am not a bot:)

Regards,
Damon

Damon,

I know...just kiddin with ya...you've been a Godsend to lots of folks around here. :)

No worries. My nickname in another forum is "The Bot:...LOL!

ive had problems with paypal or i should call it gaypal no offense to any homosexuals. anyways i had like $500 in my account cuz some client wanted to pay that way. they accused me of fraud and froze my account for a couple months. after asking for all this bank garbage and proff that i was really me. they let me back into it. goto like http://www.paypalwarning.com i believe the address is. there's a ton of horror stories there about how much paypal sucks....

Hi interactive,

May I ask what the reason was for the account management team restricting your account was? I would be more than happy to take a look at it.

wow i hope nothing like that ever happens to me

Sent a reply back to damon..

I also got a reply *finally* from the paypal team. They say I need to send a check or money order to them to top-up the account. I can tell you now, I want the account to RECIEVE money, but not SEND that way I can get the balance up. If I can RECIEVE but not SEND, what would the risk be?

Hopefully Damon can understand what the hell I am going on about here :)