Orville XXXXX has completed the PayPal Verification process to help confirm their identity, and they have a confirmed bank account, or been approved for a PayPal Plus Credit Card.
The PayPal Verification process is a security measure to confirm that a user is the owner of the bank account or credit card they are using in PayPal. Confirming each user's identity helps prevent fraud, such as identity theft, and increases the security of payments in PayPal.
It has come to our attention that you may be the recipient of potentially unauthorized funds. We have initiated an investigation into this event. In the meantime, we have placed a temporary hold on the funds in question until the investigation is complete. This temporary hold will show as a deduction in your available balance. In the meantime, you are free to continue transacting using your PayPal account.
3. Hello XXXXX,
A review of recent transactions indicates that you might have received a
payment that the PayPal account holder did not authorize.
To protect you from problematic transactions, we sometimes request
additional information about PayPal payments.
We need more information about this transaction. Please log in to your
PayPal account, click the "Resolution Center"tab, and provide more
information by 9/13/2009.
We recommend that you not ship the item until our investigation is
complete. If you've already shipped the item, please log in and let us know
where you shipped it.
We have placed a temporary hold on the funds until we complete our
investigation.
I was able to log into PP, and refund the money. I don't know this orville person, have never dealt with him. How could he get my info to send me money? He contacted me later in the day, and said the $11.00 was the first of 75 transfers of $150.00 each.
posted on September 7, 2009 05:29:31 PM new
yikes! Have you called PayPal and talked to them directly?
It sounds like you may have a keybd logger virus on your system. Not good!
You need to run some serious virus scans to see if other personal infor is being stolen from your system. Then you will need to address any website listings where you are accepting PayPal payments. You do not want your buyers to be sending payments to this account until the issue is resolved.
I would not have refunded the payment. You should let PayPal sort out the details. By communicating with the payment sender, you may have just verified for them that they do indeed have your PayPal password. Cahnge it immediately!
posted on September 7, 2009 05:31:20 PM new
I guess I should also add, use a different computer to change passwords and access accounts until you know if you have a security breach or not.
posted on September 7, 2009 08:28:58 PM new
You received the money? All a person needs to send you money is your email address. You don't have to have your PP account for that. Sounds like Orville must have hacked somebody else's account?
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posted on September 8, 2009 06:04:30 AM new
Is there a way to block an email address from sending you money in paypal? If there isn't - there should be. Hope it works out for you.
posted on September 8, 2009 06:48:16 AM new
One of the options in Profile will allow you to turn off automatic direct payment acceptance. I have it set on my account.
With it set, if someone sends me a direct payment that I have not invoiced,I receive a notice of pending payment. I can then log into my account and accept it or deny it.
posted on September 8, 2009 11:48:23 AM new
I heard from Oeville this morning. The other 75 pmnts were to Zynga Game Network. Looks like they sent mine to see if it would work.
