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Quoted from LTG:No idea what the scam is.
Probably a variation of an overpayment scam.
Someone sends you money you don't expect. The scammer demands a refund from you. Then after you send the "refund" as a separate transaction, the scammer reports the original transaction as fraud or whatever and gets it reversed.
So, you're out both the money from the original transaction, as well as the "refund" you initiated from your end.
Quoted from Black_Knight:If you refund it back to the same account it came from, I doubt you'll have any trouble
Just make sure not to refund as a new/separate transaction. As in, don't click "send payment".
pasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from Black_Knight:but what scammer would send money from an account to have it sent back to the same account
Who knows. That doesn't automatically mean it isn't a scam.
Quoted from Black_Knight:I've never canceled a F&F transaction, only ones with cc's, does paypal even give you that option?
There is a refund button.
pasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from rtotans:how can you reverse it? I think it just says refund. But if I refund him through my account it will charge me, and if his money was a scam, then I will get charged weeks later... right?
No, if you click the refund button within the transaction, it won't take *additional* funds from you.
The scam happens when you start a *new* transaction to send money back, and then the scammer later reverses the first transaction.
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