A person on discord contacted me and asked for my help. They asked me to buy something for them from a website with their money because the website they're buying from has a limit on the number of times you can buy, and claimed you can only buy from them 3 times in 72 hours. So this person told me they would give me money to buy this thing they needed and then I can keep the rest, which they said would be around 30 USD. I thought this was really weird, that this person would trust me with this amount of money as a person they barley knew, but I thought I would be alright seeing as I didn't have any balanced in my Paypal account and that earning money for something this simple would be nice. They sent me 200, asked me to buy an item that costed 165, and 35 was left in my account. Everything is good and well and I earned some money! My dumb brain thought so at least... An hour later I open Paypal to confirm everything is fine and I see -165 USD with a ''Add money to resolve your negative balance'' note and the +200 transaction has ''ON HOLD'' next to it. What am I supposed to do in this case? What CAN I do? I tried contacting Paypal but it either directs me to ''recommended threads'' or to this community thing. I know this was a really dumb move, but I do not use Paypal and did not know that refunds were possible even with no balance... What even happens in this case? How does Paypal get it's money back when I have no balance? Is this something I have to care about as a person that doesn't use Paypal? Or can I just forget about it? I have no clue what to do... Guidance please.
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