How a Trusted Writer Duped Me Out of $180 and Shattered My Publishing Dream
Oh, and many scammers are men who pretend to be women. As humans, we tend to trust women more than men.
Brian had a scammer send a $700 “invoice” to his personal Paypal account. He didn’t pay it. He’d never heard of that person before. She filed a claim with Paypal. Brian knew how the scam worked. By the time she filed a claim with Paypal, insisting she HAD provided those non-existent services, Brian had closed his Paypal account, and driven into town to close his bank account (he only used that one for Paypal). Bizarrely, Paypal actually determined that the woman’s invoice was legitimate, and took the money out of Brian’s closed Paypal account (it didn’t have any money in it and, when they did that, there was a negative balance). Paypal was then not able to get the money from Brian’s bank account, and he was receiving emails from them about it. He’d already told Paypal it was a scam, so he ignored their subsequent emails.
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