but nothing relates to mine. I looked at mine because the charge said Optroictec which didnt ring any bells and come up blank on Google searches. I too had a suspicious $50 charge on my visa statement from Paypal 4029357733, while my PayPal account had been limited or frozen for close to a year. In most cases, this charge is nothing to worry about since it usually defines payments processed through the PayPal system. You can be charged without using your own PayPal account when you buy something from a vendor who uses PayPal and has it set up to take credit cards. I called my credit card company, noticed two charges under a $100 from this Paypal account.and I didnt charge or use paypal. Creeps. Why do you say dont worry about it and its not what you think? I then asekd to speak to a supervisor, and was told, my supervisor doesnt take calls! Im like really? My transaction is a little different, I had a transaction for $1.95 deposited then taken right back out again. Heres why this is a problem: Nothing suspicious shows in my Pay Pal account. If you are using a Visa debit card, or indeed any ATM card that works like a MasterCard or Visa, and you make a payment with that card *through* Paypal, of *course* they take the money out of your bank account. Guys: check your recent online purchases (you should have e-receipts). Just a wee message for everyone, my lovely wife and family love playing POKMON GO, as with any game there is charges involved to move ahead. There was another for $10 but I guess my bank refused it or something or PayPal did initially bc it was credited (the $10 charge). I assume Im not the only one who noticed the stilted language that sounds just like native Russian speakers when they speak English. It derives from hacking of iphone with cc number that is on file in appstore via Apple Itunes. I will more than likely cancel my paypal account. Reviewing my CC statement earlier today, found: PAYPAL SMCOA309 402 935 7733 CA. If you let someone use your credit card, they might have made a purchase. This number appears every time a payment from your account or credit card is processed through the PayPal system. Learn more. I just received my credit card statement with the Paypal SarahFrance 402-935-7733CA in the mail yesterday. Some of the information here is plain wrong but it helped. i received a call on my cell from 402-935-7733 i didnt pay much attention to it. If you want to avoid this and other pitfalls, get used to checking all transactions on your CC every month. My bank said that they do not deal with PayPal. Hope this helps because I was freaking out lol, My wife bought a yoga package in India, and this is how the charge is listed on our credit card statement: It turns out someone without an account, a different email address simply tied it to my credit card on file with paypal. Phew, just glad to know we werent hacked! I ended up doing a search in my email for the amount listed, and it was an order Id placed with Republic of Tea using my Paypal account (now that they let you use Paypal). If you dont have a Paypal account, then the odds are very good that the charge that reads something to do with Paypal, and that has the phone number 402-935-7733 associated with it, is a charge from that vendor or merchant who uses Paypal to run their own charges through. Had to call them twice so keep after them. It pays to be an informed citizen who knows their rights! I have a $595 charge listing Paypal 4099357733 Wiberlux from my Bank of America account.I called Paypal and they do NOT show this transaction being linked to my Paypal account, so in my case it is not a legitimate charge. This is how it appears, my a$$. I had a charge on my debit card, which isnt even connected to my PayPal account. Searching on the tel # brought me here. Even if you paid with your credit card, its possible that a merchant is using the PayPal system for transactions. Neither account showed activity in March 2015. Most of us end up forgetting one-off charges (or a spouse buys something we dont know about) and thats what these end up being. charge for IS 1 World Security Conference. Heidi, you will need to contact the bank or institution that issued your credit card; you should also contact both eBay and Paypal. What can I do? And I discovered an additional 10 Lyft/ PayPal charges adding up to about $100 which I also did not authorize. what was bough by you and not bought by you, so you can report it. The charge was fraudulent and luckily my credit union reversed the charge. I tend to do a lot of online shopping so I was 90% sure that I made the purchase but I always like to know what it was. Receipts will come from ISIPP. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Reading all of the stories I was also skeptical of the individuals who forgot a transaction. Contacted my CC company. Cancel your credit card and get a new one. I only came to know about the fraud when I received 2 SMS that read, Thank you for using xxx7869(card no.) I explained that i received a call from it and the thread i saw claims it was a paypal number. We have had to get new credit cards about four times in three years, thanks to scummy scammers who get hold of our number somehow, and make ridiculous charges. This is legit PayPal charge for me. Then there were TWO withdrawals for $145.00 followed by a THIRD one for $198.99. I was told that there are several entities that use paypal to make payments. Yes, its upsetting but take some time to think clearly. Though I do have a PP card (only due to eBay! I dont know where the phone number comes from. BUT it was on a credit card # that I never used with PayPal. this is false. PayPal email address linking to YOUR ACCOUNT. THE PEOPLE SAYING ITS LEGIT IS FALSE AND OR WORK FOR THIS SCAMMER. First they withdrew $1 then deposited it back. So its not paypal, its either my debit card or my bank account! PP*MEGFREIGO. I too saw this and did not know what it was. Its the Ebay seller: Memories Pawn Shop. etc. I am a merchant and I provide a service and the customer paid me and the customer did not have a paypal account but yet when they checked their bank or credit card statement it was showing a charge from Paypal. Havent used pay pal in years. It is my 1st guests under their system & in was Dec 22 and their information says you get payment the day after the guests check in I am still waiting 21st January? The vendor description was: PAYPAL *HAPPYGOSIEK 4029357733 CA First of all I DONT have a Paypal account and I DONT have an Ebay account as well. My card was cancelled and theyve sent me a new one. For the person who recently commented about paying for services on Twitter, I would suggest to never do it under friends and family because it makes it harder to get your money back from PayPal. Then maybe someone has your CC Info. What a scam. i had added my cell number to paypal which activated paypal mobile. It helped that I did google search using phone number and found the comments here. I got one for 4 dollars with this phone number. Go rent a car, and get ready to be asked, so where you going? Who you going to see/do? Of course they try to play all innocent, yet behind the scenes- theyre taking notes!!! Just reconciling my bank statement and noticed a debit card charge for $9.19 for PAYPAL XIANGGANGSH 402-935-7733 CA. Ok, here is what happened, The agent did mention that whomever had done this had my billing address and security digits on the back of the card, and had asked if I had an email account listed with 163.comwhich I do not. For visitors with visual disabilities, access to this website, including our FICO Data Privacy Policy, is available through assistive technologies, such as BrowseAloud, JAWS, VoiceOver, Narrator, ChromeVox, and Window-Eyes. Paypal does not have my debit card saved on file either, but After reading this article I realized (in my case anyway) it was an ebay purchase. I saw this charge and immediately thought is was fraudulent. I went to my ebay account and I forgot I had ordered an iPhone case, so my charge was legitimate and it was delivered. I have a charge of $3,430.45 from this number on my account! Not true for me. You get the message at your bank The charge on my credit card statement shows Paypal, the 402 phone # and the books title/author. (PP*XXXXCODE 402-935-7733 CA 09-30-15 070056) where the Xs are digits that you enter on the PayPal site to verify your card. Thank God I caught it in time and launched an investigation. The charge PayPal purchase 8882211161 San Jose,CA was first reported Mar 12, 2018. This has been an ongoing problem for me for at least a couple years. Same as with othersshes never used PayPal or even set up an account with them. It is possible that this is a legitimate charge from Paypal. its a scam. Ive since cut up my credit card and am still disputing this. I just reported it to Discover yesterday I wish I had waited longer, anyway I am sure they will get it all taken care of. 2] I notified Pay Pal & cancelled my account with them. Somehow. Thank God, some people are still decent and arent going along with this oncoming fascist police state! when by and large its the banks themselves and those who run them that are the biggest crooks and criminals out there! . I have accounts with both, but Id know if I had taken 10 rides with strangers in the past month. And Siam the best is just any paypal id that the writer decide to use for collect the money which theres nothing concern with E-Book name or book store website at all. Just under $400. If you are out of funds in your PayPal account from which you buy stuff Is this a legitimate credit card charge? It gave this phone number followed by CA, presumably California. Cant be, since it appears on a credit card not even know to paypal! The card in question isnt even on file with PayPal. Certainly dont ignore this! And you can Google that too! ie banks money laundering drug money! So after following his lie, just for kicks, I called back, got a different rep. Im not going to tell you its legitimate, because it can and at the same time it cant be. I did a search of all my email looking for those particular dollar amounts, and wa-la. Update: This article was first written more than 8 years ago, and people are still finding mystery charges associated with the phone number 402-935-7733. Always good to follow up in any way possible. This happened to me today. follow these steps to report unauthorized activity on your PayPal account. What a bunch of people who scam, I closed my paypal account years ago. and then to check to see that your explanation was the same! purpose for using Paypal all bank account info is hidden. They told me this on line when I paid via amex, but by the time I received my statement I had forgotten. This is a credit card that has never been linked to Paypal. So I checked Etsy and realized that something I had purchased from the Ukraine was the exact same amount. She had used it on an online website to give a cash wedding gift to a relative. Not happy. card linked, and use it all the time, no worries!! Discover verified that the charges are in fact coming from Paypal, but I still question even that as my charges appeared on a credit card I had never used with paypal! Sounds like your issues are the bank-not paypal. They gifted themselves $247. Yes Vivian is correct I had purchased a textbook using my credit card. It was not a Paypal charge. She took a moment, looked over my account, seen Id been a customer for years, no problems, and was (to her credit) very nice, apologized, agreed with me that yes, I should NOT have been treated like I was. 2 Days ago I noticed a strange charge on my bank account. Took about a week and PayPal put the money back in my account. Not the case for me. The Paypal agent confirmed that the 402-935-7733 phone number was the number of their head office. Companies like PayPal, Square, and others have master merchant accounts set up with Amex. Someone opened a return request in eBay, which I approved. I was able to purchase an expensive software using my employee discount and I did use my paypal account for that purchase. Legit charge here. It was processed through Paypal, but did NOT appear on my paypal statement. I looked up what I bought that month and it was a legitimate charge on eBay. Going to dispute charge with credit card. The card that received the charge wasnt associated with my account, however my wife confirmed that the small business she made a purchase from did use PayPal on their side but went to her/my credit card. They are charged around 45 TL every time around the same times, we contacted to PayPal and got replied email like it is not their problem. Same thing just happened to me. Well, this time. At first I could not remember what I had purchased so left a message for Paypal to call me. It turns out that ABC was the initials of store, but that was not immediately obvious. If you cant find a purchase made with the amount, go back a month or two, it will more than likely show up. Do you know what the source of this charge is? Buyers can purchase from merchants using Square to process credit cards in person, over the phone, or through Square Online. I called to ask, whats the problem? The rep who acted as though I were a criminal having committed a crime, had the nerve to ask me, why am I transferring this money? As though its any of his business. Also fortunately one of my safety nets as a shopper is that the bank account I only use has minimal amount of cash,thereby lessening the chance for a catastrophic loss as well as against impulse purchasing. So if you DIDNt buy it, or didnt buy something for someone else. Reported. I provided that info and the PayPal representative found the charge and was able to tell me what was purchased and indeed it was something I had charged and was a valid charge on my American Express card!!! Fair Isaac is not a credit repair organization as defined under federal or state law, including the Credit Repair Organizations Act. If you don't recognize a charge that may be from a Square merchant, this article will help you understand next steps. I noticed a charge on Friday night for $985.99. Wells Fargo is horrible. Bought something under there name and paid as a check out guest using Paypal. In my case it was a valid PayPal charge used to verify a new card that I had registered with them. I thought it was a scam, too until I read the comments below particularly: This isnt a fraudulent charge. My bank was closed but I immediatly searched the number to try and figure out what it was. I had the same number on my credit card statement. The company listed was Xoom in the debit transaction. It is not Paypal charging a secondary account. In some cases, the charge can be displayed as 4029357733 ca. Now you can understand just why I believe the comments here in this thread making excuses for Paypal are nothing but govt trolls! In the bank statements I disputed one of the transactions and it came back as professional services does it mean he was paying for live sexcams or something? If they use so much creativity in figuring out how to BILK others, why not put that creativity to a good use??? Warranty. Could very well be a legit charge to someone not affiliated with Paypal. Not saying people havent experienced fraudulent charges but ours turned out to be legitimate. This is because I the merchant use Paypals virtual terminal to process my payments so you can see a charge that says Paypal on it even if you do not use PayPal, it just means the merchant used Paypals virtual terminal to process your payment, I have to say that it can be very confusing to our customers that do not even use PayPal and they do need to change it so that it shows as something different in your transaction history. On further investigation they discovered the two transactions and the name associated with them was not me. Mine was research and it was a sleeper I bought my grand daughter. On some occasions, this address might appear along with the 4029357733 charge on your credit card statement. They charged us twice in different dates and used different merchandisers. This doesnt mean it is on your Paypal account. How paypal continues to allow this to happen I dont get. They did this twice on my card in one day and paid back one of the small amounts but not both, so Ill be calling the 402-935-7733 phone # to try to get the small amount reimbursed. I found its the price of an E-Book I bought from a Writer. It was a minimum charge but i reported it to the sender, and my bank. I guess the seller uses Paypal to process his payments from me or Amazon. I just noticed a $430 charge on my credit card bill, it shows as PAYPAL *USC 4029357733. I had to cancel my card and keep an eye on my bank account. And to those who seem to imply as though its okay, BS! No other information on the line of the credit card bill. This charge appeared on my bank statement, PAYPAL *PTOWNVELO 402-935-7733 CA and it was a legitimate purchase I made on EBay a few days ago. I went on Paypal and there was no such charge. Are they beta testing this, Starbucks Raises Number of Reward Stars Points Needed for Rewards Just in Time for Valentines Day: Here are the New Requirements, find and cancel all of the automatic payments that come out of your Paypal account, About the Amazon Gift Card in Your Mailbox Scam, Help the Internet Patrol by Taking this 1-Question Survey on Email Personalization , How to Fix the Unable to download item. But, if you have a $750 charge that you cannot remember, you might be getting scammedor you might need a CAT scan! i seen many different claims here. Investigate yourself. On 27.07.2017 (10.15 pm) three money transaction happened as mentioned below without my knowledge, by debit card spent 1hour on the phone to be asked what my entire CC# was because they cant find transaction. The company Xoom is not anything I would use today. I hope they get these guys. I bought an item on eBay with a non-PayPal credit card. 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