Money request canceled

[triber]

I just had a message from Paypal saying that a money request by ******* had been cancelled. I didn't recognize the name, and then found it was from April 2011! What is that all about?

[momcqueen]

Maybe a phishing scam? 

[rose-dee]

I'd assume it's a nefarious attempt to "break in", and would forward it on to the "spoof@paypal" email address.  I don't have that handy, but you can find it on the Paypal website.  Or someone here may know the full address. 

Alternatively, you can probably call Paypal and ask them to verify whether the message is legitimate or not. 

Whatever you do, I wouldn't respond to it directly. 

[vintagenorth · Accepted solution]

Triber, you can forward the message to spoof@paypal dot com but I wouldnt click on anything in that email anyway. Somehow doesn't sound right. I would call PayPal about it.

[triber]

No, I never click on links, I went right to Paypal. Apparently, it IS from Paypal, seems to be a bit late!

[momcqueen]

Maybe the other party unearthed it in their account history and decided to cancel it only now. Was the email dated 2011 or was the request dated 2011?

[triber]

The request was dated 2011, you maybe right, the buyer may have decided to cancel any invoice requests in the past.

[momcqueen]

The last time that I took a detour through my paypal account history, I was surprised to find old stuff that didn't automatically time-out. My guess would be that the other person was housecleaning. Still.... it might be helpful if paypal acknowledged alterations or changes to anything over, say, 24 months old as 'archived' or something at least in the accompanying message to the parties involved. My radar would be up after getting a notice like that as well. 

[vintagenorth]

I wonder if it has anything to do with the eBay/PayPal split? Maybe they are trying to clean up THEIR files.

[momcqueen]

You might just be right.