I am a Paypal user in Singapore and I have always been a fan of Paypal, i.e. I feel secure to buy from online shops which offer Paypal payment option. When I accessed my email this morning, I was shocked to see 12 emails (4 sets X 3 emails) from Paypal, arrived between 6:56am to 7:09am my time: 6:56am Receipt for Your Payment to Facebook Payments Intl ltd (a payment of $1.00 USD) 6:57am Receipt for Your Payment to Facebook Payments Intl ltd (a payment of $100.00 USD) 6:57am Your Billing Agreement with Facebook Payments Intl ltd has been cancelled 6:59am Receipt for Your Payment to Facebook Payments Intl ltd (a payment of $1.00 USD) 6:59am Receipt for Your Payment to Facebook Payments Intl ltd (a payment of $100.00 USD) 7:00am Your Billing Agreement with Facebook Payments Intl ltd has been cancelled 7:04am Receipt for Your Payment to Facebook Payments Intl ltd (a payment of $1.00 USD) 7:05am Receipt for Your Payment to Facebook Payments Intl ltd (a payment of $100.00 USD) 7:05am Your Billing Agreement with Facebook Payments Intl ltd has been cancelled 7:08am Receipt for Your Payment to Facebook Payments Intl ltd (a payment of $1.00 USD) 7:09am Receipt for Your Payment to Facebook Payments Intl ltd (a payment of $100.00 USD) 7:09am Your Billing Agreement with Facebook Payments Intl ltd has been cancelled The email ids of this "seller" (Facebook Payments Payments Intl ltd) contain omething like Paypal-fbcredits-ireland1, -ireland2, -ireland3, etc I have never played any Facebook game nor bought any Facebook credits. In fact, I am hardly a Facebook user - the last time I logged on to Facebook was more than 2 years ago. I have never pre-approved any billing agreement with "Facebook Payments Intl ltd" to deduct from my Paypal account. I have already logged the above payments ($404.00 USD in total) as unauthorized transactions with Paypal resolution center. I did a search in the Internet and found this forum. After reading the experiences of others in this forum and from other forums, I have lost confidence with Paypal, because this kind of Paypal-Facebook complaints are not rare! I consider myself as one who stays very alert against scam emails. I would be very puzzled if I have fallen into a trap that stole my Paypal userid and password. I have not clicked on anything to do with Facebook or Facebook credits lately. Nobody (children or adults) except myself uses my PC or my mobile phone Given the number of similar complaints, I can't help but to think that there is some loophole between Paypal's "My pre-approved payments" feature linked to Facebook Payments Intl ltd. Some crooks have discovered that loophole and capitalized on it. From the "pattern" of the above transactions, they looks as if they were done by some automated program. From the "pattern", it seems that when a "pre-approved payments" was set up, it did not trigger any email notification, while a cancellation of the pre-approved payments triggered an email notification. And yet after the cancellation of the "billing agreement", the next set of payments went through. ( What is wrong here?) I hope Paypal investigate thoroughly and swiftly patching up the loophole, if any. I look forward to an explanation from Paypal that will restore my confidence to maintain my Paypal account.
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