I feel totally embarrassed and felt like it could never happen to me. But unfortunately I was scammed and now I have a negative PayPal balance of over $5,000! It started when I got a "job offer" as a text proof reader, then after I completed some jobs with that, that job got put on "hold". I was then asked to be come a Representative for a company called eMag. My gut feeling told me not to do it and I emailed and told them I wasn't interested, then I emailed them back and said I was. It involves them selling items on eBay and money going into my PayPal account. When item was shipped and money was released to me on paypal I transferred to my bank. And had to send cash through mail to "Toriana Wellington" in New York. I went through with everything. Then to my surprise something was shipped but not to the person who actually bought the item. Then thI buyer from eBay filed dispute and now I'm left with over -$5,000 in PayPal. Is there anything, ANYTHING I can do??? Please help Thanks
No I have not replied to the dispute. I knew there was warning signs but they even call you with a real number and interview you. Everything seemed legit in a weird way. Gosh.... what am I going to do?
Well, you need to look at each dispute and decide if there is anything you can do in defense.
What are the specific disputes?
Based on your summary, however, I suspect that none of the transaction disputes related to goods and services. On the other hand, we know nothing about the individual transaction disputes, but PayPal would only offer seller protection for goods and services and I assume you totally ignored all PayPal protection polciies.
I didn't ignore the PayPal protection policies. I knew if item wasn't received and the requested refund it would be given back to them weather the money was in my account or not. However, the item that was sold via eBay wasn't on my eBay account, it was on the eMag company's eBay account if you want to call eMag a company.... they just used my PayPal account to get buyer to send money to my PayPal account.
No. I'm going to try to explain this again.... I never physically had an item to ship. This so called company let me act as a middle man to handle the money. They clamed that they wasn't able to receive payments from buyers and I would be their representative to take the money and transfer the money to my bank and to withdraw from bank and send cash money to them. They handled the eBay part.
It was a scam. You did not directly ship anything with the transaction, so you you have no proof of delivery. This is where you ignored PayPal seller protection requirements as you were not a seller.
I assume the money was sent as friends/family and not goods/services so you have no protection there either.
