Paypal payment

[daddio305allan]

I purchased an item fro ebay using paypal as payment. I recieved the item and later I found that I had paid for this item by the seller and I also noticed I had paid for the same item plus two other items from someone else I had never heard of. The item was alot dearer and the other two items I never ordered or received. 

I notified paypal and eventually my money was returned. Because of that,I have had nothing but trouble from paypal and have had unfriendly phone conversations with them. They or someone else were after all my bank details and personal details like drivers licence details etc.

I had to shy away from them because photo proof  was no good for them because they did not know me in the first place.

Allan Rodger

[lyndal1838]

Allan, Your story about paying for the item twice does not make much sense but it does sound as though you were scammed somehow.

However, your story about unfriendly phone calls does not sound right either.  If you were somehow scammed and paypal has returned your money then they do have a right to verify your information to try and work out how/why you were scammed.

Also, you can only do a certain number of transactions through paypal before they need you to verify your identity by providing 100 points of identity as you would provide to an Australian bank.  It has to do with Australian money laundering laws.

If you refuse to do this you will soon find your paypal account closed.

You are lucky if one photo ID is all they want.  At the time I had to verify my identity many years ago I did not have a photo ID and had to provide 4 or 5 different forms of ID.

[typhoon4u]

Allan, Really sounds like you were being (or are being) scammed.

If you received an email purporting to be from paypal for orders you did not make DO NOT click on anything in that email.

Do not use the links in it or phone numbers.

Log in to paypal directly or via an order you KNOW you did make and double check whether the payment for the items you did not purchase was real. (Was any money taken out?)

In the scam paypal emails, they make you log into a fake website to get your details or you telephone a fake paypal rep who again wants your details to use and get into your accounts and for identity theft.

Lots of these emails about. Generally the fake ones do not address you by name ( Dear Joe Bloggs) but the real paypal emails do.