'In my phone I had an erroneous email account tied to his cell phone,' said the El Cerrito resident. 'So when I put in the request to send money to him for a reimbursement it went to a dead account, and he never received it.'
An East Bay man accidentally sent money to a dead PayPal account. But because it was a mistake, not fraud, he had a harder time getting it back.Glen Goddard lives in El Cerrito. He recently used PayPal to send money to a family member.
Goddard figured out the problem on his own and went online to PayPal to let the folks there know what had happened. He heard back right away with what he believed was a robo-response. A great idea that worked out well for Goddard. Once the complaint was received, 7 On Your Side reached out to PayPal.
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