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WARNING: If you receive a PayPal payment request from someone claiming to be Ethan Klein. DO NOT send them money. Anyone can open a PayPal Biz account & set the name to anything they want. It& #39;s even easier to create a gmail acct. spoofing Ethan& #39;s name. Here& #39;s how I know... /1 https://twitter.com/h3h3productions/status/1264632256338984960">https://twitter.com/h3h3produ...
The email from PayPal reads like this:
Ethan Klein sent you a payment request.
Note from Ethan Klein:
"H. E. L. P. winner ding ding ding! Congrats on winning $500! All you need to do is send me $5 for confirmation that this isn& #39;t a bot! Papa bless!"
/2
Ethan Klein sent you a payment request.
Note from Ethan Klein:
"H. E. L. P. winner ding ding ding! Congrats on winning $500! All you need to do is send me $5 for confirmation that this isn& #39;t a bot! Papa bless!"
/2
I didn& #39;t check Twitter until AFTER I sent the money, ostensibly to confirm that I& #39;m a real person. But in the heat of the moment, I didn& #39;t pause to think it through. Turns out, I wasn& #39;t one of yesterday& #39;s winners.
"Why didn& #39;t you think it through man?" you say? Read on... /3
"Why didn& #39;t you think it through man?" you say? Read on... /3
1st - I was in a hurry. I had an interview this morning.
2nd - I am in dire financial straits.
3rd - I was & am severely sleep deprived from financial stress and trying to find and take on as many paying gigs as I can.
Days with almost no sleep makes a one functionally drunk /4
2nd - I am in dire financial straits.
3rd - I was & am severely sleep deprived from financial stress and trying to find and take on as many paying gigs as I can.
Days with almost no sleep makes a one functionally drunk /4
I suppose the scammer assumes that no one would publicly report this out of shame. After all, who would allow themselves to look so stupid as to fall for this?
I& #39;m sharing this as a PSA. Because the scammer could easily skim $5 off of thousands of desperate people. /5
I& #39;m sharing this as a PSA. Because the scammer could easily skim $5 off of thousands of desperate people. /5
I think I know who did it too. They also posted a giveaway. Which I responded to via DM as instructed. They asked me where I& #39;m from. And when I checked the next day, they had blocked me. I& #39;ll find the screen name of the suspect... /6
Okay, not only did they block me, but I can& #39;t find any trace of them anymore. I made the mistake of leaving the conversation thread this morning after "she" (or whoever it was) blocked me. Logged in with another account to find her the same way I stumbled on yesterday. Gone. /7
Well, I guess that& #39;s all I have to report. I hope this spares others from getting hoodwinked. And that @h3h3productions sees this & alerts his followers. Meanwhile, I& #39;ll dispute the payment at PayPal. Fingers crossed. That $10 would have put food on the table.
UPDATE: PayPal denied my dispute. There was no other option to choose other than "unauthorized". Apparently, PayPal& #39;s "reviewers" are fine with scammers using their service to bilk desperate people out of their money. 
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You need to revisit your dispute process @PayPal. Did a human actually review my case @AskPayPal? Or do you guys really not care that so many people are getting scammed like this? Please see the beginning of this thread for the full details.
