hi everyone,
At the end of 2015 near christmas i was wanting to build myself a new gaming setup, get a new monitor etc and get a knife for myself on CS:GO since I am a competitive gamer.
A friend I have spoken to online on steam for a few months and played some games with said he could help me build my new setup etc as he understood i was at uni and couldnt afford it
He sent me money on paypal from people that claimed money was owed to him from so I accepted the 4 payments of £150, bought all my gear and was more than happy.
However, it seemed that all the files were getting charged back on unauthorised activity claims and i started panicing, i tried to contact him to let him know this was happening and I couldnt get ahold of him at all... it looked like he had completely blocked me. Obviously im panicing.
2 weeks later all the claims come through and I get a negative balance of this amount around -600. Im panicing here as ive spent the money and couldnt afford to redo my balance so I just stupidly left it and didnt know what to do.
A couple of weeks ago, I get a claim company come through asking for the balance so I called them up and arranged a payment plan with them to repay this debt. I realised that this guy was a scammer and had completetly done me over and somehow access accounts this way or they were in on it???
Can i honestly get in any trouble if im repaying off this debt with the DCA? I made sure with paypal the payments would be deducted off my balance.
I dont want to start emailing paypal letting them know what happened as I dont want to get into a legal mess and I realise that I need to pay off the negative balance. If I pay it off will the whole situation just go away?
I live with my parents (20 years old) doing a university degree and have never had an issue with the law or anything im completely clean.
At the end of 2015 near christmas i was wanting to build myself a new gaming setup, get a new monitor etc and get a knife for myself on CS:GO since I am a competitive gamer.
A friend I have spoken to online on steam for a few months and played some games with said he could help me build my new setup etc as he understood i was at uni and couldnt afford it
He sent me money on paypal from people that claimed money was owed to him from so I accepted the 4 payments of £150, bought all my gear and was more than happy.
However, it seemed that all the files were getting charged back on unauthorised activity claims and i started panicing, i tried to contact him to let him know this was happening and I couldnt get ahold of him at all... it looked like he had completely blocked me. Obviously im panicing.
2 weeks later all the claims come through and I get a negative balance of this amount around -600. Im panicing here as ive spent the money and couldnt afford to redo my balance so I just stupidly left it and didnt know what to do.
A couple of weeks ago, I get a claim company come through asking for the balance so I called them up and arranged a payment plan with them to repay this debt. I realised that this guy was a scammer and had completetly done me over and somehow access accounts this way or they were in on it???
Can i honestly get in any trouble if im repaying off this debt with the DCA? I made sure with paypal the payments would be deducted off my balance.
I dont want to start emailing paypal letting them know what happened as I dont want to get into a legal mess and I realise that I need to pay off the negative balance. If I pay it off will the whole situation just go away?
I live with my parents (20 years old) doing a university degree and have never had an issue with the law or anything im completely clean.
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