DAN-F
15-07-08, 03:24 PM
has anyone had any bad experience with them or anything dodgy involving them? the reason i ask is because about two weeks ago i sold a brand new but old style w810i phone that wasnt working properly on ebay, i was expecting about £20 for it for spares, about an hour before the auction ended it was on £19 then someone bid it up to £383 before i had chance to delete theyre bids, they had a new ebay account with no feedback with a usa address, i thought it was a time waster and thought no more of it,
next day checked my emails and i had 2 off paypal with all the paypal logos saying they had recieved payment for the ebay item and it was held in theyre escrow system, and i would recieve it once id provided proof of posting which ive never had before, but the second mail was to give me postal adress which was in nigeria not usa, i sent it anyway and sent them the tracking number, now today ive had these emails from 'paypal'
the first one
Dear DAN FREDERICK,
Congratulation !!!!!Your Order has been dispatched for delivery into your PayPal Account address provided and this will be received in a couple of hours.
But there is a problem about the payment sent to you, Our Accounting Department has made an error with your payment which means a total of £ 483.00 was sent to you instead of £ 383.00 .
The deduction of the extra £ 100.00 has shown of the buyer's account,You are advised to contact the buyer and settle this issue by refunding the £ 100.00 before the delivery of the payment into your PayPal account.
We regret to inform you that the payment may not get to your PayPal account address until you settle this possible issue with your buyer.
We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Thanks for your understanding.
Sincerely,
PayPal Accounting Department,
PayPal Company.
and then this one about 5 minutes ago
Dear DAN FREDERICK,
You only have 24Hours to refund the money to the buyer so we will not take LEGAL ACTION ON YOUR ACCOUNT the transfer of the payment in transit into your PayPal account.We have just contacted the buyer to select the preferred method to have the money back.The buyer confirmed that you are requested to send the money of £ 100.00 to his address in Nigeria Using Western Union Money Transfer. Below is the Confirmed and Verified Receiver's Details as provided by the buyer.
NAME : Kehinde Adenle
ADDRESS : No 158 Baptist Church Owu, totoro,
CITY : Abeokunta
STATE : Ogun State
ZIP CODE : 121101
COUNTRY :Nigeria
Note; The payment will be delivered in the next two days which means you must refund the money within the next 24hours unless we take a LEGAL ACTION OF LIMIT OF YOUR ACCOUNT against you.
We will like you to get back to us with this detail after you have send the money for verification and your account will be credited.
Require Information To Credited Your Account
Sender Name & Address In Full:
Receiver Name & Address In Full:
Question & Answer:
MTSN Number:
Note
We urge you not to send this information to the buyer before sending it to us,we are doing this just to protect our customer, we appreciate your co-operation in this regard thanks.
If you have any other question feel free to reply us.
We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Thanks for your understanding.
Sincerely,
PayPal Accounting Department,
PayPal Company.
to me it seems really dodgy dont see why paypal would want me to refund the overpayment through western union when they can just deduct it from the payment anyway
next day checked my emails and i had 2 off paypal with all the paypal logos saying they had recieved payment for the ebay item and it was held in theyre escrow system, and i would recieve it once id provided proof of posting which ive never had before, but the second mail was to give me postal adress which was in nigeria not usa, i sent it anyway and sent them the tracking number, now today ive had these emails from 'paypal'
the first one
Dear DAN FREDERICK,
Congratulation !!!!!Your Order has been dispatched for delivery into your PayPal Account address provided and this will be received in a couple of hours.
But there is a problem about the payment sent to you, Our Accounting Department has made an error with your payment which means a total of £ 483.00 was sent to you instead of £ 383.00 .
The deduction of the extra £ 100.00 has shown of the buyer's account,You are advised to contact the buyer and settle this issue by refunding the £ 100.00 before the delivery of the payment into your PayPal account.
We regret to inform you that the payment may not get to your PayPal account address until you settle this possible issue with your buyer.
We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Thanks for your understanding.
Sincerely,
PayPal Accounting Department,
PayPal Company.
and then this one about 5 minutes ago
Dear DAN FREDERICK,
You only have 24Hours to refund the money to the buyer so we will not take LEGAL ACTION ON YOUR ACCOUNT the transfer of the payment in transit into your PayPal account.We have just contacted the buyer to select the preferred method to have the money back.The buyer confirmed that you are requested to send the money of £ 100.00 to his address in Nigeria Using Western Union Money Transfer. Below is the Confirmed and Verified Receiver's Details as provided by the buyer.
NAME : Kehinde Adenle
ADDRESS : No 158 Baptist Church Owu, totoro,
CITY : Abeokunta
STATE : Ogun State
ZIP CODE : 121101
COUNTRY :Nigeria
Note; The payment will be delivered in the next two days which means you must refund the money within the next 24hours unless we take a LEGAL ACTION OF LIMIT OF YOUR ACCOUNT against you.
We will like you to get back to us with this detail after you have send the money for verification and your account will be credited.
Require Information To Credited Your Account
Sender Name & Address In Full:
Receiver Name & Address In Full:
Question & Answer:
MTSN Number:
Note
We urge you not to send this information to the buyer before sending it to us,we are doing this just to protect our customer, we appreciate your co-operation in this regard thanks.
If you have any other question feel free to reply us.
We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Thanks for your understanding.
Sincerely,
PayPal Accounting Department,
PayPal Company.
to me it seems really dodgy dont see why paypal would want me to refund the overpayment through western union when they can just deduct it from the payment anyway