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04-27-2009
|  | Private | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Uranus
Posts: 14
Reputation: 7 Level up: 56%, 224 Points needed | | | | I've scammed and given info... HELP!
Hello MMowned,
recently i bought some items online with scammed money on paypal and i got the items shipped to my house and now paypal is temp holding the money... what should i do and what can happen to me?
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04-27-2009
|  | Knight-Lieutenant | | | Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 263
Reputation: 25 Level up: 40%, 483 Points needed |    | | | 1. You are going to jail
2. You are going to HELL |
04-27-2009
| | Master Sergeant | | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: England
Posts: 130
Reputation: 6 Level up: 82%, 74 Points needed | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Airkez  Hello MMowned,
recently i bought some items online with scammed money on paypal and i got the items shipped to my house and now paypal is temp holding the money... what should i do and what can happen to me?
Thanks | Not sure exactly what you mean but if you payed with scammed money and recieved the items to your house then your Paypal account will go into a negative state which requires you to top it back up to neutral again, if you don't do this they will pass the case on to a debt collecting firm and you will have someone knocking on your door  |
04-27-2009
|  | Master Sergeant | | | Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 87
Reputation: 8 | | | It depends... Were you dumb enough to use a legit paypal? |
04-27-2009
| | Contributor | | | Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 366
Reputation: 95 Level up: 62%, 268 Points needed | | | | Well that was just stupid
Your paypal will end up on a negative balance and you will recieve a letter through your door giving you 3 days to pay otherwise you will have to appear in court, thats when you are ****ed lol. So get it sorted asap. |
04-27-2009
|  | Contributor | | | Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 484
Reputation: 116 Level up: 38%, 438 Points needed | | | | return the items and pay the money.
or the partyvan is gonna show up at your house. |
04-27-2009
|  | inc | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: MMowned
Posts: 5,429
Nominated 3 Times in 3 Posts Reputation: 1032 Points: 44,307, Level: 31 | Level up: 90%, 293 Points needed | | | | I don't know really, i mean i live in the UK and a year ago or so i owed paypal like £120. They kept sending me letters but never took action.
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04-27-2009
| | Contributor | | | Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 366
Reputation: 95 Level up: 62%, 268 Points needed | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by 2dgreengiant I don't know really, i mean i live in the UK and a year ago or so i owed paypal like £120. They kept sending me letters but never took action. | I also live in the UK i got a letter cos i owed them £60 left it and 4 days later had dept collectors at my door so i just paid it. If i never paid they would of took me to court and i would of had to pay it plus a fine.
So you best off either returning the items or pay your balance back to zero and close your account. |
04-27-2009
| | Private | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Uranus
Posts: 14
Reputation: 7 Level up: 56%, 224 Points needed | | | | On my paypal i have fake details but on the website i gave real info
Forgot to add i'm 16 years old |
04-27-2009
|  | Contributor | | | Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 344
Reputation: 156 Level up: 56%, 309 Points needed | | | | Everyone says they will knock on your door, but I have never heard of this happening. I myself owed paypal about 200 for 6 months and they did nothing. |
04-27-2009
|  | Knight-Lieutenant | | | Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 382
Reputation: 41 Level up: 92%, 77 Points needed | | | | i owe 60$ , i kept getting emails from telling me restore my balance .. i had real info . nothing ever happened to me.. sooner or later they closed my account |
04-28-2009
| | New User | | | Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 29
Reputation: 2 | | | If your debt is large enough they may sell your debt to a collection agency that will attempt to collect from you. I'm pretty sure Paypal can't ask the site you used for the contact info you provided without breaking a few laws. If you tell a debt collection agency that you wish to communicate with them only through email, they must comply. If they continue to attempt to communicate through methods you have requested they not use, they have broken the law and it's possible that you could make a civil claim against them. If you never pay, the agency will probably put a collection record on your credit report, which is bad. At least that's how it is in the US.
Problem is you're 16 and I assume you live with your parents, so the agency's first attempt to communicate with you, if they manage to get your real contact info, will most likely be intercepted by your parents and you will be screwed.
My advice to you is to pay it as soon as possible. |
04-28-2009
|  | Knight-Captain | | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: achievement land
Posts: 389
Reputation: 34 Level up: 95%, 28 Points needed | | | | Hm, I don't want to encourage you to scam, but since you already started, perhaps you could make a FAKE paypal this time, use it to buy wow gold (while behind a proxy or at an internet cafe or something) with your scammed money, then sell the gold to a different china site using your real paypal, and slowly pay the money back that you owe on your real account. It's a way to launder the money and the chinese or whoever you bought from end up getting screwed or just never refunding to paypal. Lulz!
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04-28-2009
| | Site n00b.. (A leecher if I've been here for more than a month and can't earn 5 rep) | | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Hell
Posts: 10
Reputation: 1 | | | good luck man. you should at least be prepared for this |
04-29-2009
| | Master Sergeant | | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: England
Posts: 130
Reputation: 6 Level up: 82%, 74 Points needed | | | | I had debt of £280 with Paypal as i legitimately sold something on ebay which someone used to a stolen credit card to buy. I was 14 at the time and didn't realise as everything seemed legit. The person whos credit card it was got there cash back due to insurance which meant I then owed Paypal £280. Like I said at the time I was 14, they sent me letters until I was 16 demanding I show them proof of postage (which i happened to have and I faxed that through to them). They then asked for a fax of my passport as I was not 18 and I didnt hear from them again. However they waited 2 years until I was 18 and decided to send the letters out once again, I went to the citizens advice beuro and they said this is illegal but turns out its not, so I ended up organising a settling fee of £120 for them to throw the case out, because otherwise I would of ended up at court and have a bad credit rating at the age of 18, which is a very bad thing to have. | |
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