Title says it all. Helping a friend pay rent, they e-mailed me their PayPal phone number, but it had a typo that neither of us caught until seeing an unfamiliar name on the Confirmation E-mail. The PayPal “support” chat bot said the transaction can't be stopped or reversed.
Does PayPal provision for this at all, or am I thrown to the wolves here?
(Obviously, I am trying to reach out to the accidental recipient—but, let's be real: they have no way to know I'm not a scammer. Yes, I can't cancel the transaction, but the recipient has no way of knowing that. For all they know, I'm waiting for them to irrevocably send me a pile of money before revoking the pile of money I allegedly-accidentally sent them.)
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