They made the mistake!

A couple of years ago, I opened and closed, almost straight away, a pay pal account. The account was linked to my yahoo.com email address.

More recently, willing to buy a 1979 Kawasaki, I registered with ebay. Ebay would not register me without opening a pay pal account, therefore I opened one, limked to the same email address I have my ebay account linked to, a hotmail.co.uk one.

I bought the motorbike, then other parts needed to make her look the best that I could: 2 items from the US and 2 from the UK. A couple of days later, I also decided to spend a pounds buying collectable comics from a US seller.

What I didn't realise, was that all the transactions were linked to my pay pal yahoo.com account, which I repeat, I closed almost 2 years ago.

A few days later, I sold on ebay a foot peg for a Yamaha FJ 1100/1200. This item sold for the extraordinary price of £0.99 plus £16 P & P (using registered 1st cl*** mail from the UK to the USA) fopr a total of £16.99.

Then, I received an email from pay pal letting me know that the foot peg buyer had paid the £16.99 (about $32) to my hotmail.co.uk-linked pay pal account.

Because I didn't want to have (I didn't need it) 2 pay pal accounts, I called them, and their customer representative told me I could close any of the accounts without any problems. I wasn't very sure, because pay pal's failure on closing the older account when I asked them, made me think they weren't very professional or error free, and I was afraid they would mess up and close both accounts...

However, I decided to close the hotmail.co.uk-linked pay pal account, after sending his money back to the American lad who bought the foot peg, who even before receiving his money back from pay pal (they told him it'd take 2-3 weeks???) paid the £16.99 to my yahoo.com-linked pay pal account. As soon as I received the money, I sent the item, then closed the pay pal account linked to hotmail.co.uk


Next thing I knew, pay pal decided to suspend my account due to "Unusual activity". I called them but they wouldn't explain what were they referring to as "unusual activity", asking me for a series of ID and proof of identity.

I refuse to do so, unless they decide to let me know of what exactly am I accused or what am I suspected of.

Now, they have blocked my account. I am lucky that only £16.13 ($32) are in that account, because I transfer £251 (I sold a second hand motorbike exhaust) to my bank account a few days before.

They won't give me my £16.13 for 180 days, they said in an email they sent me yesterday, 31 July 2008.

I guess that some one in pay pal is doing this on purpose: £16 here, £200 there, for 180 days...Um, a 6-month period, good for a short-term high interest rate deposit, isn't it? After six months they retrieve the money, pay the pay pal conned people their original monies, keeping the interest to themselves...

A VERY GOOD SCAM INDEED!!!!!!

W*NKERS