Received money from someone I don’t know.

jessemburt
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I received money from someone I don’t know and they disputed it and somehow I won the dispute. I haven’t done anything with the money because I didn’t know if it was some kind of scam. So is the money mine now?
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kernowlass
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@jessemburt 

 

Its easy for someone to mis-spell an email address/ or a digit on a phone number and the funds go to another person like yourself.

They probably opened the wrong dispute type which is why you won the claim. 

But why would you want to keep someone else's money?

 

Click on the transaction and you will see if you were charged a fee to receive the funds or not.

If you were not charged a fee then why not use the refund option on that same page and refund the monies back to their owner?

If you were charged a fee then you could do the same but minus the fee element as the error was not your fault but the senders.


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kernowlass
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@jessemburt 

 

Its easy for someone to mis-spell an email address/ or a digit on a phone number and the funds go to another person like yourself.

They probably opened the wrong dispute type which is why you won the claim. 

But why would you want to keep someone else's money?

 

Click on the transaction and you will see if you were charged a fee to receive the funds or not.

If you were not charged a fee then why not use the refund option on that same page and refund the monies back to their owner?

If you were charged a fee then you could do the same but minus the fee element as the error was not your fault but the senders.


Advice is voluntary.
Kudos / Solution appreciated.
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