Quote Originally Posted by BeerAndPoker View Post
Quote Originally Posted by vegas1369 View Post
I did not know you could chargeback when you send money to a "friend or relative", thought that was just for business transactions. Won't be doing any escrows in the future TYVM.
I'm not 100% sure on this in regards to sending to a friend or "gift" type transactions. I do know it's much more difficult but I believe a scammer can get around that as well.

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You might be right I know at one point you could charge back with that option but paypal constantly changes their policies. I think they have changed it to not allow charge back disputes on gift transactions so I guess if someone is able to dispute something through their bank or remove the funds prior to paypal pulling them but after the credit was given to the person they sent it to then that might be the only way.
From the Jasep scam, I learned that once it's sent as a gift you are not allowed to chargeback to the person you sent it to. You can charge it back at your bank or credit card and it will put your account into the negative, but the receiver will never get screwed over on a gift. The only caveat to this, is if you send it and call paypal asap and tell them you sent it incorrectly, but the people receiving it would know you did this.

So word of advice, if you are going to escrow, always make sure it's sent as a gift.