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So I made a purchase the other day and I used the wrong card and an account was overdrawn - I only mention this because of the strange PayPal issue that followed, maybe it's the cause.
So anyway, payment gets made OK and then today I get a message from my PayPal saying account balance is negative which has never happened before. I can't work out how it happened :| The message says "please" pay an amount to settle the balance … it's rather strange, there's nothing that immediately makes me thing it's fake like a link or stuff like that (and it appears to be related to the above transaction) but it's basically saying settle the balance very nicely with no mention of repercussions lel.
I googled and apparently it's not unheard of though I just read SER pages without clicking other than PayPal's support which is basically like the email: no mention of repercussions. Which uh … doesn't seem like PayPal.
To further muddy the waters I looked at PayPal on my phone app and it says my balance is 0 lel.
Should I pay the small amount they're claiming my account is in arrears by? As far as I can recall PayPal has always refused to process the transaction if funds aren't available and frankly I wish they'd done that here :|
Looked at transaction history in app. According to PayPal I paid the amount to my bank account (which was overdrawn in a transaction with ebbay) making my PayPal balance negative. The transaction description is "Refund".
I did not do this transaction knowingly.
The hell?