Facebook advert make money if you have a PayPal account

Lumstorm

I think I have seen a similar scam before but the money paid in was from stolen credit card details. I believe it protects the scammer as the stolen cards are traced to the victims account so the victim is the one guilty of laundering stolen money and could be prosecuted for the crime.

Azari

Gullible2 wrote: »

Have had to get a loan to pay PayPal.

You certainly do believe in acting without thinking, don't you?

Before you pay PayPal anything, you should speak to a solicitor.

If the story as you related it is true, at least one financial institution has acted extremely irresponsibly in allowing you to remove money that had suddenly appeared in your account in a completely unprecedented (and extremely suspicious) manner.

Their responsibility to act against money laundering should have caused them to raise all sorts of red flags and investigate before releasing funds.

Gullible2

The biggest thing is that just by having my paypal login they managed to divert payment into my paypal account.... this was unexpected and it was streamed into my account over a 2 hour period in lots of different currencies, I did not authorize them to pay anything into my paypal account nor transfer it to my bank account. Once in my bank account i stupidly sent it to them.. I am sure I am not the only one hooked by this advert they must be making a lot of money and getting away with it.... how could they manipulate payees into my paypal account? Paypal blocked it all 2 hours after the first payment. by that time I had transferred money to the scammer. Still thinking it was all legal, stupid now i realise but at the time it was all so fast. I have reported everything to the police and I just wanted to stop anyone else from getting involved with these people. It all happened between 12 and 2.00am. I was not thinking clearly.. I realise now that it was a scam obviously and have reimbursed paypal but I still have no idea how they could direct payments to my paypal account without them having insider help. I am not greedy... and have never seen a 90/10 scam advertised anywhere, this is why I have told you all about it. Sorry if I seem garbled I am just very very upset and horrified. These people need to be stopped and I am doing everything I can to help catch them.

bod1467

Do you have a pathological aversion to this key?

glentoran99

Gullible2 wrote: »

The biggest thing is that just by having my paypal login they managed to divert payment into my paypal account.... this was unexpected and it was streamed into my account over a 2 hour period in lots of different currencies, I did not authorize them to pay anything into my paypal account nor transfer it to my bank account. Once in my bank account i stupidly sent it to them.. I am sure I am not the only one hooked by this advert they must be making a lot of money and getting away with it.... how could they manipulate payees into my paypal account? Paypal blocked it all 2 hours after the first payment. by that time I had transferred money to the scammer. Still thinking it was all legal, stupid now i realise but at the time it was all so fast. I have reported everything to the police and I just wanted to stop anyone else from getting involved with these people. It all happened between 12 and 2.00am. I was not thinking clearly.. I realise now that it was a scam obviously and have reimbursed paypal but I still have no idea how they could direct payments to my paypal account without them having insider help. I am not greedy... and have never seen a 90/10 scam advertised anywhere, this is why I have told you all about it. Sorry if I seem garbled I am just very very upset and horrified. These people need to be stopped and I am doing everything I can to help catch them.

you obviously are otherwise you wouldn't have fallen for a money for nothing scam

glentoran99

Azari wrote: »

You certainly do believe in acting without thinking, don't you?

Before you pay PayPal anything, you should speak to a solicitor.

If the story as you related it is true, at least one financial institution has acted extremely irresponsibly in allowing you to remove money that had suddenly appeared in your account in a completely unprecedented (and extremely suspicious) manner.

Their responsibility to act against money laundering should have caused them to raise all sorts of red flags and investigate before releasing funds.

this ^^^^^^


my bank account was hacked and £400 was sent out of my account, Bank called me before I knew anything about it, Never mind thousands of pounds going in and out

Azari

Gullible2 wrote: »

The biggest thing is that just by having my paypal login they managed to divert payment into my paypal account.... this was unexpected and it was streamed into my account over a 2 hour period in lots of different currencies, I did not authorize them to pay anything into my paypal account nor transfer it to my bank account.

This is where it seems that paypal have been grossly negligent and failed both your self and their obligations under money laundering legislation.

How can they possibly justify allowing money from an account that has suddenly, with no prior warning, received a vast number of transactions form all over the world - a pattern that is presumably entirely new for the account, to be transferred out of the account within hours of its arrival?

Considering the difficulty the money laundering legislation causes ordinary people, even for what should be quite straightforward tasks, it beggars belief that they let this pass without question.

I've no idea about the law as it relates to the responsibilities of financial institutions in these circumstances, but I would reitterate my advice to contact a solicitor before sending anything to paypal.

Johnnytwostep

this did not happen, pull the other one its got bells on it!

MoneyMission2015

Doesn't it take a few days for a paypal payment to reach your bank account though? So this surely couldn't have all happened in the space of a few hours.

paddyrg

Basically a money mule scam - you inadvertently launder the cash for criminal activity, and are left at the end of it being the contact everyone had and all being reclaimed. You'll find out more from scamwarners.com, and maybe visit 419eater.com to get your own back ;-)