My (former) PayPal account was hacked into by an eBay buyer who, after waiting 4 days to agree to cancel our sale, managed to persuade someone that a 2-day refund delay warranted a break-in into my account to remove the money "forcefully", digitally speaking. When I submitted a complaint that an unauthorized third party had stolen my entire balance and run me up $22 in the red, if you can believe that! Paypal responded alright -- by limiting MY PayPal account, not the account of the person who admitted in email that he had performed the hack t with PayPal's help. Apparently this buyer had "special privileges" as a PayPal member, i.e., not even needing to file a claim in the Resolution Center. Since the Paypal account was" limited", I could not physically (digitally) make changes which I was repeatedly ordered by Paypal to make. Meanwhile, Paypal was billing me every month for the $22 which the thief ran up on MY tab and wouldn't stop despite many, many emails explaining the situation. Finally, after about 4 months I received a bizarre email that sounded like it had been written by the old Soviet Politburro which admitted that my accounted had been breached by an unauthorized party, but in effect said we really don't care about making things right. Tthe Seller Protection "Guarantee"? Yeah right. Even after this my account remained "limited" but I was getting letters from one anonymous PayPal official to make changes to my account or face having my Paypal account -- the one thart belonged to ME, the guy who was victim of the $130 theft from my Account. Literally, I got a letter like a countdown "you have only 2 more times to make these changes", then, "You have only one more time" and finally "You have no more time to make the changes so we are locking your account" And they did, They locked it. If you were really interested I might be willing to share info to see what a "Locked" Paypal account looks like. Maybe I'll post a screenshot. It's gruesome, almost funny, like it practically has weeds growing and tumbleweeds passing through,
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