Quick PayPal Fraud Tip

When I was starting out in this industry I would send payments to many people and not keep track of my paypal transactions. One day I decided to take a look just to make sure there was nothing wrong going on and I saw something weird. I saw multiple transactions to a user’s name in one day. I was pretty confused because I know I didn’t send any user multiple payments on the same day.

I checked the details of the transactions and saw that the user’s emails were different, but they were linked under the same name, which means they were linked under the same account. So being the great detective I am (better than Sherlock), I said “Ah Ha!,” and then I went and banned these user’s permanently.

Basically, most scammers from Vietnam, China, or anywhere will have one primary bank account/email in paypal and have other emails attached to that same account. The other emails are able to receive paypal payments from anywhere also so it looks like you are actually sending the payments to different users. The way to catch that is to look at your transactions and make sure that the same name is not appearing twice in one day if you have not sent multiple payments to the same person.

I hope that makes sense, if anyone needs help clearing this up don’t be shy to comment below! We have many great readers who are willing to help, and of course I am willing to help also.