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I didn't buy anything with paypal, but I found it they charged me $1to my debit card on Nov 25. What happened?

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Hi ainytiny,
Welcome! 🙂
Did you add the card to your PayPal account on the 25th? Or maybe you updated the billing address, expiration date or security code?
With some types of credit cards, PayPal will attempt a $1.00 authorization to ensure the card is working and check to make sure the billing information we have is correct. We will never put the $1.00 authorization through and eventually the card issuing bank will place the $1.00 back into the account. I'd guess that's what you're seeing but it is still possible that there was an actual payment of $1.00 to someone. If that's the case, then you would be able to see that in your PayPal history.
I hope this helps! 🙂
- Frank

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