Advice needed I think I've been conned by a friend

Ff1478

Im actually in tears I am really worried :-(
Last month a good friend who lives in Spain asked me to do her a favour and asked me if She could send money to my pay pal to then withdraw to m Barclays account then send to her Barclays account and I agreed I ended up sending her 5 seperate amounts of money via this method over the course of a few weeks sheWas sending these payments via friends and family to my pay pal and they add up to around the Total of £1600

Pay pal have now opened disputes on these payments an charge backs Applied
It has come to light she used a family members credit card to make these payments into my pay pal and the owner of the card has flagged them up as unauthorised with their bank
Now I'm REALLY worried I've been scammed my pay pal is now showing as being -£1600
she's asked me not to appeal these claims as she is getting it resolved from her end but the deadline to appeal is in 2 days time and it still still not sorted
I rung pay pal yesterday to see if she has got the card
Owner to resolve these disputes but they said they have no info on their files as the disputes have been opened with the bank and not with pay pal directly
I really don't know what to do everytime I phone or txt she says they are sortin it out and not to worry but I've got a horrible feeling I've been scammed I can't believe she'd do that she's lent me money in a few occasions Over the last few years (which I've always paid back promptly so was just trying to be a good friend and return a favour when she needed help) but what do I do I feel like I'm running no out of time and getting fobbed off by her please help :-(

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I wouldn't let her walk off with £1600 of my money.

bengalknights

I would request she immediatly repays you

Hopeless_Case

Ff1478 wrote: »

Im actually in tears I am really worried :-(
Last month a good friend who lives in Spain asked me to do her a favour and asked me if She could send money to my pay pal to then withdraw to m Barclays account then send to her Barclays account and I agreed I ended up sending her 5 seperate amounts of money via this method over the course of a few weeks sheWas sending these payments via friends and family to my pay pal and they add up to around the Total of £1600

Pay pal have now opened disputes on these payments an charge backs Applied
It has come to light she used a family members credit card to make these payments into my pay pal and the owner of the card has flagged them up as unauthorised with their bank
Now I'm REALLY worried I've been scammed my pay pal is now showing as being -£1600
she's asked me not to appeal these claims as she is getting it resolved from her end but the deadline to appeal is in 2 days time and it still still not sorted
I rung pay pal yesterday to see if she has got the card
Owner to resolve these disputes but they said they have no info on their files as the disputes have been opened with the bank and not with pay pal directly
I really don't know what to do everytime I phone or txt she says they are sortin it out and not to worry but I've got a horrible feeling I've been scammed I can't believe she'd do that she's lent me money in a few occasions Over the last few years (which I've always paid back promptly so was just trying to be a good friend and return a favour when she needed help) but what do I do I feel like I'm running no out of time and getting fobbed off by her please help :-(

If you appeal, could you get your money back? If so then you really need to let her know about the deadline and that you will have no choice but to appeal if you get nothing from her before the cut-off time. However good a friend she has been, things can go wrong when people get short of money and do stupid things and you can't let the deadline pass by with no word from her, you've got to take every chance you can to get your money back

Horrible situation, I really feel for you

KTF

You have been scammed. The £1600 is almost certainly gone.


Did you not ask yourself why she couldn't just pay the money directly into their own Barclays account rather than go through paypal?

Fennite

i'd report her to interpol

molerat

I would be worried about a likely CIFAS marker heading your way for complicity in money laundering / fraud which could lead to your bank accounts being closed down.

18cc

Sorry could you explain a little bit further how the payments were made

you say she used a family credit card - how did that money get paid into your PayPal account ?

did she link the card to her PayPal account and then send the money from her PayPal account to your Paypal account?

Otherwise I cannot see how she got money off the card into your account

please tell me the exact mechanism she used

18cc

It seems to me that unless I am misunderstanding your PayPal account has simply received a series of payments via friends and family which you then withdrew to your bank account

thus you have done nothing wrong in PayPal's eyes and you should immediately dispute the chargeback of the funds

molerat

18cc wrote: »

It seems to me that unless I am misunderstanding your PayPal account has simply received a series of payments via friends and family which you then withdrew to your bank account

........ and immediately transferred out to a third party bank account.


I'm sticking with my previous comment

I would be worried about a likely CIFAS marker heading your way for complicity in money laundering / fraud which could lead to your bank accounts being closed down.

18cc

yes but from a paypal point of view it has just been withdrawn to a linked bank account