I Have had very similar but the other way round; I was the seller and the buyer was telling me that I needed to give them my verification code on my phone for the payment to go through. It states in the PayPal text to not share your codes with anyone. I was getting alarm bells. I have never heard of needing a verification code to make a payment or to receive a payment. It is a scam. I very foolishly give a verification code. All of a sudden I was logged out of my PayPal and my password wouldn't work. I checked my emails and I had one from PayPal stating that I had changed my password. This obviously wasn't me. I quickly changed my password using 'forgot password?' which requested a verification code as normal and then I could proceed to change my password. luckily, I think the scammers couldn't get any further with the 'scam' as no money was taken from my account and they couldn't access my connected credit card. I am hoping that my account is now safe, everything looks ok, no suspicious activity, so assume it's all ok now.
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