Kudos to PayPal

TL;DR I noticed some fraudulent activity on my PayPal account and it was sorted overnight :+1:

Last night I received four emails from PayPal regarding purchases from Google totalling around $8 altogether. Now, I’ve never bought anything from Google, ever. So i initially thought that these were fake or phishing emails. I logged onto PayPal from a different device, and saw that those payments had indeed been taken, and that Google had been set up as a pre-authorised merchant a few days previously.

I raised them as unauthorised with PayPal straight away, and they immediately forced a password change. They said that they should get back to me before 23 April.

This morning I received an email saying that the transactions were found to be fraudulent, and the cash had been restored to my account.

So well done on swift action by PayPal!

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Kinda the system working as it should. It’s nice to see.

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