if a site offers immediate ' double your money now' offer, is it legal. and the money one will get through Paypal will be legal.
I agree, you would have to find out what country the website is hosted in, and contact the authorities in that country. Unless you were actually scammed, you would not be able to sue them for saying it on their site. They would just get in trouble with their local police and maybe fined and forced to take it down.
Paypal always seems to favor the person sending the money. It may show up in your account, and then all the person who is sending it has to do is cancel and you will NEVER receive the money. Cheers
Lets put it this way. You can sue anybody for anything, but winning and/or collecting is another thing. And then it may simply be thrown out of court. To actually cause someone some real trouble, the amount of money has to be really high, probably in the hundreds of thousands of USD or more before anything would be done about it, if anything then, so you are most likely just spitting in the wind, and wasting your time worrying about it. This year alone I have lost thousands due to scams on the net, but have also made the contacts I needed to do even better, because I didn't waste time worrying about, just kept moving forward and you probably should too. I am not an attorney and this is just my opinion....
It could be legal, it might not be, it depends how the doubling is done. And no, Paypal doesn't take kindly to schemes of this kind, especially MLM or ponzis.
sounds like another HYIP (ponzie/ scam) to me and they are illegal in various countries. 999.999% of the time you will lose what ever money you put into it. they do pay out at the start but tht is only to give a false sense of security and so get more suckers to put bigger amounts of money in. When that happens then come the excuses for not paying with reasurances that it is a little hitch in the system. Next thing you know they are gone and so is everyones money.