How far will paypal go to find me?

[Coder]

So basically, whenever I accept paypal I filter the payment through an account that has entirely fake info on it. I then send it to my mother's paypal and its deposited into my bank account.

If I was to receive a chargeback on my fake account would they be able to track my punk ass down? Has it ever happened before even when using fake info?

Will they be able to or even bother to track me down to send debt collectors after my ass?

 

[Chapter]

Well this is considered money laundering and paypal loses money every time someone does this. So yes, you will probably be contacted in some way depending on how much of an extreme you did it. Like $100 they probably would just email you with a warning. But depends how much money they lose. Not an expert just throwing some things out there.

 

[Braden]

I have never been "tracked" down. I have a real PayPal then a fake one. There was only 1 occurrence with me and @ACR where funds were limited, but that's about it! PayPal is more of a hassle but it is helpful with current stuff.

 

[Shiver]

I know @Chaz has fake info on his. You should try talking to him.. I have no clue but hope you figure this oud

 

[Fiend]

They won't. I do the same thing (except I have the $$ sent to my main paypal.) they don't do shit

 

[Ash]

They won't do anything, I've had over $500 in one account and it was negative on a fake, and sent to a main, trust me your fine.

 

[Coder]

Well this is considered money laundering and paypal loses money every time someone does this. So yes, you will probably be contacted in some way depending on how much of an extreme you did it. Like $100 they probably would just email you with a warning. But depends how much money they lose. Not an expert just throwing some things out there.

Yeah I realize it could be considered money laundering.. but that isn't entirely true considering I'm not selling anything illegal.

What if I closed my account? I wonder if that actually does any good... I do that every now and then.

 

[Voidal]

I was permanently banned by paypal for money laundering. That was literally the message.
I live in Europe though and it specifically mentioned EU money laundering regulations.
Not sure if it applies to you but the message mentioned that they are mandated to investigate accounts receiving more than €2500 (~$3000) in one calendar year.
I've never had a dispute but I would assume if you have one or more disputes they will look into your account, demand identity verification and permanently limit your account if you fail to provide it.
Other than that I don't think you have much to worry about. Unless you're raking in big money they probably don't care enough.

 

[Hostage]

They keep phoning me but I blocked there num. I told them to fuck themselves. And I said what exactly are you going to do, send me to prison? Jog on PooPal.

 

[Gengar]

1) Paypal will at most, chargeback siphoned money from the final receiver if it was less than 2 transactions ago.

If you're transferring money, for "NON-ILLEGAL REASONS," use 3 verified paypals and transfer in the following process:

Paypal with money --> Drop1 --> Drop2 (Bans/ Limitations stop beyond this level) --> Drop3 (For safety measures) --> Your main paypal.

2) Paypal will not take real world, or legal action as far as I've seen. I've seen up to $40,000 scammed via paypal and never saw legal intervention from Paypal, (This was under real information rofl)

3) Paypal offers a variety of bans for accounts, I know there exist bans via:

- Bank, and Card (All paypals created with your banned card or bank will be terminated)
- IP address, easily avoided.
- MAC Address, I know this exists, but I don't know much on it.
- Residential address tied to the banned account.

 

[Jaii]

my paypal is all fake information, I'm yet to see anything happen.

 

[Azazel]

Ive owned over 10 paypals that have gotten limited/suspended and yet they havent "tracked my punk ass down"

 

[Chats]

@Coder I have a PayPal negative $2,000 the funds were put on hold, it was all on a fake PayPal but they somehow got my address and started sending letters, etc.. to my house. But I'm not sure if that always happens, they also kept calling me but I just never bothered to answer. So yes, this has happened to me before. I don't always recommend doing it, my honest opinion.