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As we have endlessly discussed, this is not from the WHO. Its from a random person, evidence now being from multiple random people jumping on the bandwagon. One of Paypals main, most popular features is that anyone can send a Paypal user an unsolicited invoice. It has nothing to do with them 'pushing an agenda' or any other right wing fantasies of opression.  ... View more

One of the biggest appeals of Paypal is that anyone can create and send invoices for free, only the regular transaction fees are paid. The very design of Paypal now is 'user beware.' They have come a long way since we were beaming Paypal money to each other on our Palm Pilots over lunch in 1999. ... View more

If you read this thread, you'll see how I have thoroughly explained this at this point. ONCE AGAIN, for everyone in the back....ANY PAYPAL USER CAN INVOICE ANY OTHER PAYPAL USER USING ANY LOGO OR IMAGE AND LINKING TO ANY WEBSITE THEY WISH.  I have recreated the 'WHO invoice' myself and send it to another user that helped me test this. IT DOESN'T MATTER what logo and website are included in the invoice.  Thus, no invoice should ever be trusted on this platform unless it is from a party you are expecting a bill from for the amount you expect the bill to be. ... View more

Yes, several have posted the instructions for doing this on the website.  ... View more

Read my comments. It is possible because Paypal allows any user to invoice any other user. This is an insanely popular option with people like artists and small businesses because its free, they only pay the regular transaction fees. It allows users to attach their logo or image and link to their website. 76% of people pay these invoices within 24 hours.  As you can imagine, this is rife with fraud potential. But they'll never get rid of it. ... View more

@rantypants @Folesen @Colina2 @Kellybp  A Paypal coding bug causes the cancel button to not work on the web. To cancel any unwanted invoice: At the end of the URL after you click to cancel the invoice manually type ?action=cancel and enter. Using the website, you should then be able to cancel this fraudulent invoice. The reason it is 'still happening' is because Paypals system allows any user to invoice any other user. They would need to disable this system to stop it. Or at least, implement additional measures to prevent this...(not allowing new users to invoice others, making this a paid feature, etc.)   ... View more

@fairykind wrote: To the people who can't delete, I escalated my chat complaint and FINALLY got this reply from tech support and it did work, I was able to cancel the invoice using this method   "Thank you for bringing this to our attention, please know that we are already looking into this and this looks like a bug that's why the cancel button is not working.   To cancel this invoice please follow this procedure.   At the end of the URL after you click to cancel the invoice manually type ?action=cancel   This should cancel the invoice that is showing as pending. I do appreciate as well that you have sent the email to spoof@paypal.com so our security team can check and track this people." LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE A WINNER!!!! I figured this was some type of coding bug and it is. Follow the above procedure and you should be able to cancel it. ... View more

@jrjanis wrote: I received an unsolicited invoice for $50.00 this morning, August 15th and, after reading this post and the responses, I did some research.   First, if it's not clear to anyone that hasn't already done so, the invoice CAN be canceled.  Click on Activity, then on the transaction, and then Cancel.  Be sure to send a nice message about why you're canceling!  Interestingly, PayPal would allow an issue to be opened against the transaction.  Not clear to me why that is but seems suspicious.   Again, this DOES NOT WORK for the majority of people in this thread. I do not know why people are reporting different behaviors of the website. You would think everyone would have a single, unified way the interface works. There IS a cancel button where the invoice is-as well as a side arrow >. Any interaction with this line item takes you to the invoice where the only option is to pay it. ... View more

@Kimmy0221 wrote: I got a invoice for $50 from the World Health Organization on my paypal accout today. I contacted paypal but I haven't heard anything. Its not from the WHO. Its from some yahoo creating invoices and sending them to random Paypal users. There is no hack, your account isn't compromised. You don't have to do anything. Let it sit there and rot.  ... View more

@g384 wrote: Same here.  Requester's name is "Ronee <removed>"(?) WOW.....the name doesn't appear on mine, and nobody has mentioned it before you. Sounds like somebody is using his name...he's an MMA fighter. and thats a very particular spelling. It may be that others are jumping on this, or that the person thats been doing it has **bleep** up.  ... View more