You wake up and there's £1904 in your PayPal account. What do you do?

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Feek said:
You also email the address that transferred you the money in the first place and they don't reply. You email them again a few days later and still don't get a reply.


I don't have an android in the first place, my phone hasn't been keylogged and my PayPal password is long, complicated and unique. The account isn't compromised. I don't see what this has to do with it at all :confused:
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This is GD and as such, all answers are valid. Ones posted in jest tend to have a wink emotion with them.

Now scroll back up, I have not edited the earlier post.;)
 
With all that you've done and described all you can do is sit on it for a while and wait and see if the sender gets in contact with you. They obviously have your email so can potentially explain what's going on. Personally I'd feel guilty taking the money and running if it is indeed a mistake, but after a week or to I don't see what else you can do but consider it to be yours.
 
Feek said:
Why? What?
The email address linked to the PayPal account is used exclusively for PayPal, it's not a general address and not something that anyone could guess or realistically, enter by mistake.
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General paranoia - scam / attack routes aren't always as obvious as someone telling you there a Nigerian prince. I've seen all sorts of weird things going on in payment scams that aren't immediately obvious. IE if someone has your password use your account to sell something and defraud someone else, fraudulently make some money online gambling or something etc etc then use your account as a middleman.

Doesn't seem likely but easy to change to be safe :)
 
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I'd be worried they might have my address from a previous purchase or something (after all how did they get your payapl email) and that someone would turn up at my home
 
Could literally be a typo in an email address.
Like someone paying someone for a car.

I think I'd give it back to someone if it was something like this and was just a normal person.
 
SC0TTRS said:
How will they know OP address?
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