Re:Why is paypal to blame for this? (Score 1)

To give you an analogy of how this works, I will go over an incidence I just had: - I put an online character up for auction on Ebay. - The winner sends me money via PayPal. - I see the money is in my account, and that the winner is a "verified" PayPal person. - The winner has a "verified" address, but I do not use it as the goods transfered are virtual (online character of a game). - I transfer the character. - The next day, PayPal sends an email saying that the account was hacked, and the transfer was fraudulent. The money that was previously transfered to my PayPal account is now removed. And that is it. In this situation, there is no way PayPal is going to return the money. What happened is that the PayPal account was hacked by someone (still do not know), and they did alot of Ebay auction wins with just "virtual" transfers. Then within a week, they are gone. The real person who owns the account (whom I talked to) says her account was hacked by someone, and she is really sorry. Her Ebay account is now useless, as it has 15+ sequential "FRAUD ACCOUNT! DO NOT USE!" replies for auction wins.