Am a victim of fraud

[Twinvm]

Hello everyone, I recently fall a victim of fraud. A friend of mine contacted me saying that he has a friend who would like help in receiving his payments. Since I trusted my friend, I agreed and gave him my PayPal email. I received teh payments and remitted to him through M-Pesa. Two day later, I found a negative balance to my PayPal. It is at this point that I realized I had been scammed. The person sent money to my PayPay, asks me to withdarw for him. Then he goes ahead and file a case that I did not supply a product and he wants a refund. How do I deal with such a case. Am so stressed.

[kernowlass]

@Twinvm 

You chose to make the transaction for an unknown 3rd party and took that risk. 

So someone has to pay Paypal back. 

[Twinvm]

Alright, that was risky. Right, I just learned the hard way. In money, dont trust anybody. Now, I don't have the money to pay all that the scammer scammed me. What happens to my PayPal account?

[kernowlass]

@Twinvm 

Best to reach out to customer services and ask. However normally they give you a certain amount of time to clear the debt.

If not they pass it on to a debt collection agency (if they have those in your country) to try and recover the debt.

You 'may' have some limitations on your account if you don't pay.

https://www.paypal.com/cshelp/article/how-do-i-contact-paypal-customer-service--HELP378

[Twinvm]

Thanks for that. I'll seek some alternatives, the person who took advantage of my trust must pay. I will just need to involve local investigating agencies.