kI've received around 5 emails from paypal now. I'm 20 and have had a paypal account for a few years, never sold anything and have only bought a few small items through ebay, I received an e-mail saying someone had put £980 into my account, when i looked it was a negative balance and it said that it was on hold. I figured someone had accidentally put it in and thought they would just sent it back and that would be it, I'm now receiving emails saying that I need to pay £980 using my bank account, I looked on my account and it said a new ban account had been added but not verified, and the money had been tranferred there. This is not my bank account and I have no added it which makes me believe someone has been onto my paypal and took an unauthorised payment, then put it into their bank, this made me change my password. Does anyone know what I can do about this? I've not had involvement in any of this, did not ask for money to be put into my account and didn't transfer it to a bank. Can they take money from me? I don't have the money to pay the negative back especially when I didn't have any involvement. I live in the UK.
Check Bank and Bank Account added in your paypal account. If that bank is in UK then do some inquiry about it to see whom it belongs to. Told this matter to Paypal if someone did fraud. If that was an accident then contact that person by getting info from that bank. If bank account is fake tell this to paypal only they can do something about that. Always remain polite with them, becoz aggressiveness will take you nowhere, this is just suggestion.