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That would run of the mill fraud, not an actual PayPal transaction. Considering Western Union (and Moneygram) are competitors within the same business, PayPal wouldn't ever advise you to use either of those to send money to an individual. ... View more

A pretty consistent thing among all scam emails involve classified sites (craigslist, kajiji, etc), being away due to work (most often this is a stationed soldier or something along those lines, though they generally use any "respectable" career that is also sensible), and lastly they'll have an agent come and pick it up (usually after you pay the agent). So I would be wary. Some things to do would be:   1. Make sure you have the funds in your PayPal account before releasing the item. They may show in a pending balance, but pending balances are still in your possession.  2. The  address you ship to is the one provided in your transaction details. This is for seller protection purposes. 3. When you receive an email supposedly from PayPal, do not follow any links within the email whatsoever. Instead, log in to your PayPal account via paypal.com and check that way. That minimizes the chances of simply handing out your information to someone. That's all I've got off the top of my head. Just keep note of the things listed above and if you have any other questions, I'd contact PayPal directly, either via social media, email, or phone as applicable. ... View more

@gman51   A credit card or debit card is by no means required to use the PayPal account. However, there are certain funding options (obviously debit/credit card, and an Instant Transfer) that cannot be used without first having one on the account. In addition to this, not all merchants accept the same type of payments and they are free to restrict what type of payments they take, be it eCheck, card only, no AMEX/Discover, and so on. In these situations, at that point, a credit or debit card will then become necessary, especially if they do not accept eChecks (which differ slightly from an Instant Transfer payment). ... View more

That sounds like a button thing. Have you tried talking to their Product and Site team? I imagine you have, given what you're looking for, I'm just asking as a way to (maybe) point you in a proper direction if you haven't already spoken to them. ... View more

I would try going to the classic site through the wallet and see if it lets you remove it there. The steps are Wallet>Classic Site> My Personal Info> Update (located to the right of the email section)> Remove/Edit>Remove.   If that doesn't work, phone support , in my experience, can usually help with removing old contact information. On the bright side, with it still active on the account, any payments sent there will at least continue to go through. ... View more

Under most circumstances, if gift cards have excess funds, these funds are not returned to your PayPal account, but instead just kept on the card in a fashion very similar (if not entirely identical) to using a Debit Card, prepaid or otherwise. This is especially true for eBay gift vouchers, which only use as much as necessary, until wholly drained. However, I will admit I don't know if there are any specific cards that do not follow this rule, so I might suggest getting in touch with PayPal about the value still on the gift card or the issuing company itself, whichever is more feasible for you. ... View more

In these particular moments, contacting PayPal by phone and requesting to speak to a department involving limits on the account would be the best option. ... View more

Try clicking on the transaction in question that you wish to cancel and seeing if the option lies within the transaction details. If that doesn't work, going to Summary or Activity and then clicking classic site on the bottom of the page (or alternatively, going to paypal.com/history) and look for the Order/Action status column there, which if my memory serves me, is a line from the classic site anyhow. ... View more

Per the Privacy Policy, your name appears mostly for verification purposes, as well as for the post office. A good example of this is imagining the Smith family. John Smit has two email addresses. The first is one he uses for PayPal and is johnsmith. His wife, Jane, uses his other email address for her PayPal account, which is john.smith. Someone sending Jane money may forget the period by accident and send it to her husband John. In this case, everything ends up okay thanks to luck. However, in practice, such a simple thing can have someone named Mike Smith getting the money, because Mike goes by his middle name everywhere although his email contains his first and last name instead. Add this in to the fact PayPal doesn't have User IDs and you could have a conundrum where people use lowercase L's to mimic a capital I or so on and so forth. Now, with that being said, I believe the only exception involves businesses, which can have their business name display in place of a personal name on their shipping address, but I'm not entirely sure this is the case. ... View more