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A comment on Ask HN: What’s the deal with random people sending me money over PayPal?.

Re:Ask HN: What’s the deal with random people sending me mon... by reaperman on Saturday June 03, 2023 @02:38PM (#36179312)
Sometimes people send money to me accidentally over PayPal. I’ve had great difficulty getting PayPal to return the money, never succeeded. Always been afraid to send it back myself in case the original transfer ever gets clawed back. So I’ll just have an extra $200 sitting in my PayPal account that I can never touch.
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Re:Ask HN: What’s the deal with random people sending me mon... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday June 03, 2023 @02:46PM (#36179388)
Surely, there should be some reasonable amount of time (maybe 2-3 years?) after which you can safely consider the money to be yours? Especially if you made a reasonable effort to return it.
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