Hi everyone
Recently I've discovered that occasionally, payments sent via PayPal.me links can be directed to the wrong recipient. That is, Alice clicks on Bob's link (e.g. www.paypal.me/Bob) but the PayPal page that opens up will send a payment to Charlie, not Bob.
Of course if Alice has no idea what Bob's real name is, she will proceed and have no idea that anything is wrong! Alice thinks they've paid, Bob just thinks she changed her mind or ghosted, and Charlie has no idea why someone sent him free money.
Thankfully, this hasn't happened directly to me (yet?) but my brother has run into it several times over the past few months. He's been in touch with PayPal customer service, who seemed to be somewhat unaware of the problem, but apparently had also gotten 4-5 other calls the same day about the same problem.
Usually the best/only recourse is to contact Charlie, hope he's not an asshole (!) and politely ask him to send the money back.
Has anyone else here had this happen to them, on either side?
Recently I've discovered that occasionally, payments sent via PayPal.me links can be directed to the wrong recipient. That is, Alice clicks on Bob's link (e.g. www.paypal.me/Bob) but the PayPal page that opens up will send a payment to Charlie, not Bob.
Of course if Alice has no idea what Bob's real name is, she will proceed and have no idea that anything is wrong! Alice thinks they've paid, Bob just thinks she changed her mind or ghosted, and Charlie has no idea why someone sent him free money.
Thankfully, this hasn't happened directly to me (yet?) but my brother has run into it several times over the past few months. He's been in touch with PayPal customer service, who seemed to be somewhat unaware of the problem, but apparently had also gotten 4-5 other calls the same day about the same problem.
Usually the best/only recourse is to contact Charlie, hope he's not an asshole (!) and politely ask him to send the money back.
Has anyone else here had this happen to them, on either side?
