My son has several random deposits in his current account which he claims are made by his friends who have transferred money from their PayPal accounts to his current account. He says that his friends have sold things on eBay and had the money into their PayPal account but as they do not have a bank account, they have transferred the funds to his account and he withdraws the cash for them. I'm a little sceptical. With my PayPal account, when I transfer funds to my bank account, the bank statement reads 'Paypal' and there is an alpha numerical reference of 18 digits. On my sons statement, it reads as names, not PayPal suggesting the deposits do not come from PayPal - however, there is a similarly formatted reference of 18 alpha numerical digits as per my own statement. Question is, are these payments from PayPal accounts or not?
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