Help! A scammer drained $1,010 from my PayPal account
Chief Fiasco Fixer / Consumer reporter
Just before the holidays, Jill Eberhardt says scammers hit her PayPal account with a $1,010 unauthorized transaction. Although her bank, Chase, immediately identified the unusual “purchase” from Maple & Mist Café as fraudulent, PayPal disagreed. It determined she had authorized the transaction — and PayPal’s opinion was the only one that mattered. Eberhardt’s money was gone.
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