Paypal Questions - Help, Disputes, Transfer Money

Give him 3 days then cancel.

Just had an email from PayPal informing me there's a dispute about something I sold on here in December, apparently payment made without account holders permission, and it's being investigated.
Have got the buyers email, do I contact him directly or let PayPal sort it?

you're on the bad traders thread in case you haven't already seen

The buyer claims they never received the item/s and you aren’t responding to pm’s.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14583660/

Ta, haven't received a single message. Not like I'm difficult to find, I have my own cp thread, with my name in the title.

Anybody know how to confirm a second address on PayPal. The google instructions don’t seam to work. I’ve added the address and set it my primary address, do I need to get PayPal to post a code or something to confirm it before I can use it ?

Apparently I’m spending too much on bike stuff, so I’m going to get stuff posted to work for a bit for a quite life.

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. During one of these screenings, we noticed an issue concerning a recent transaction.

In connection with the issue, PayPal's Compliance Department has reviewed your account and identified activity that we have a couple questions about.

To resolve the compliance inquiry in a timely fashion, PayPal is requesting that you provide the following information via email to compliancetransactions@paypal.com:

On September 23, 2019, you sent a payment (X) for the amount of £x.00 for, "x." Please provide the following information:

• An explanation of the reference to "x."
• The purpose of this payment, including a complete and detailed explanation of what is intended to be paid for.

WTF?

How's about "go fuck yourselves paypal, it's none of your fucking business"

Probably some kind of anti money laundering compliance check, or, the company you sent it has been put on some kind of payment gateway blacklist or might be soon.

Hope your elephant Ivory butt plug and vintage midget porn is still received though!

"What's this nonsense about?

Why are you messing up my payments?

I use PayPal because it's supposed to be convenient. If you're going to randomly stop payments with no explanation, your service is useless to me.

Explain why this was stopped."

awaits Paypal reply

"because Sir, we don't want fined millions of dollars by the FSC by facilitating the trade in rare and endangered sexual exotica just because some Antipodean deviant wants to jizz over a candid photo of the dwarves in Lord of the Rings"

I still don't see that it is any of their business. Do banks email customers asking what transaction x is for? Mine never has.

Also it's for £122, so I must be the shittest money launderer ever if that's their target.

A temporary limitation has been placed on your account
You may be buying or selling goods or services that are regulated or prohibited by the US government.

We'd like to learn more about your business and/or some of your recent transactions.

We need you to take action on your account. Access to some features in your account will be limited until you've completed the required tasks and provided the information we've requested. We'll remove the limitation after we've reviewed the information you provide.

Fuck the US government.

I had it when I was buying legit stuff from a seller who also seemed to sell stuff that was restricted in the US-payment gateways normally get a blacklist they have to comply with to prevent money being sent to them. I think Coinbase also banned me because of this...

Could also just be automatically flagged by some kind of software as a pattern of spend rather than the amount.

I'm sure it's in their terms and conditions anyway...

I still don't see that it is any of their business. Do banks email customers asking what transaction x is for? Mine never has.

Yep, mine has. I think on a refund for a wheelset, they wanted a pic of the receipt it was associated with. The original card had expired so I couldn't refund to the same one I bought it with so I guess random £1500 refunds from shops looked suspect.

Yeah my banks regularly do too but only for non standard transactions. Recently had to provide six months of receipts to a bank in Slovenia to process a payment.

The receipts were to demonstrate the source of some funds. Just the usual AML bullshit.

Could be worse. I know somebody who banked with HSBC for ten years and they just wrote to him and told him that they were closing his account due to money laundering concerns. Didn't even explain why, or ask him any questions. No right to appeal.

The only unusual thing about him was the amount of money he was paying in, all his income is legit and demonstrable. Madness.

They threatened to close mine if I didn't provide them with more info.

I was furious initially called and said some shit like "so because you were busted laundering money in the US, I now have to give up my info to you" yada yada and then ended up filling something out online with as much bogus info as possible.

Getting messages from 62226 to confirm my paypal transactions

[PayPal] Did you pay -£xxx GBP to XXX (UK) Limited on 25 September 2019? Please reply 1 if yes or 2 if no. [Reply needed]

Is this some sort of an elaborate scam with premium numbers?

Yep, never had a message like that from PayPal

Does it tie up with your PayPal activity? If so, your account or email may be compromised

Change pay pal password

Paypal mentions that they send these texts as per the link but probably better to be safe than sorry

https://www.paypal.com/uk/smarthelp/article/why-am-i-being-asked-to-complete-a-security-check-faq3567

I have two factor on both my email and PayPal, but changed the passwords anyway.
So essentially PayPal are making money by asking their customers to respond to a premium nr. Three blocks sending texts to short numbers by default so at least I'll never get charged for it.