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Hi all,
I'm hoping to get some advice. I already posted my issue in another subforum, but posting it here as I didn't get a response for a few days.
I was doing some drop shipping with someone over the course of 5 months or so, which was going ok, there were a few chargebacks but they always paid those back to me. What they would also do occasionally is ask me to receive some payments into my paypal and send them over in bitcoins. I can buy bitcoins easily so it wasn't a problem for me, I always could keep some commission.
Then a few months ago I had some trouble with my ebay (related to the drop shipping too), so my ebay account was suspended. The guys I was drop shipping with continued to buy bitcoins from me, with me receiving the payments directly, it went fine for a few weeks. Then they asked me to receive a bunch of payments, totaling around £250, I agreed, withdrew the money, bought bitcoins and sent it to them.
A a couple of weeks later most of the payments were charged back. I didn't know what the payments were for, how to deal with them, so I just accepted the refund without disputing, bringing my paypal balance into negative. I kept trying to contact the guy I sent the money to, but he just disappeared, never replied, blocked me in the end.
A few months and some "restore your balance" emails from paypal later, I got an email from a company called Arvato, trying to contact me about the paypal debt. I replied to that explaining I was scammed, currently don't have a way of paying, but will settle it when I can. I first got another email just saying to call them, then a reply to my email just asking me to confirm all my details. And a few days ago I got a letter by post telling me I have 14 days to respond before it goes to court.
What would be the best way to deal with this situation?
I'd much appreciate your advice.
I'm hoping to get some advice. I already posted my issue in another subforum, but posting it here as I didn't get a response for a few days.
I was doing some drop shipping with someone over the course of 5 months or so, which was going ok, there were a few chargebacks but they always paid those back to me. What they would also do occasionally is ask me to receive some payments into my paypal and send them over in bitcoins. I can buy bitcoins easily so it wasn't a problem for me, I always could keep some commission.
Then a few months ago I had some trouble with my ebay (related to the drop shipping too), so my ebay account was suspended. The guys I was drop shipping with continued to buy bitcoins from me, with me receiving the payments directly, it went fine for a few weeks. Then they asked me to receive a bunch of payments, totaling around £250, I agreed, withdrew the money, bought bitcoins and sent it to them.
A a couple of weeks later most of the payments were charged back. I didn't know what the payments were for, how to deal with them, so I just accepted the refund without disputing, bringing my paypal balance into negative. I kept trying to contact the guy I sent the money to, but he just disappeared, never replied, blocked me in the end.
A few months and some "restore your balance" emails from paypal later, I got an email from a company called Arvato, trying to contact me about the paypal debt. I replied to that explaining I was scammed, currently don't have a way of paying, but will settle it when I can. I first got another email just saying to call them, then a reply to my email just asking me to confirm all my details. And a few days ago I got a letter by post telling me I have 14 days to respond before it goes to court.
What would be the best way to deal with this situation?
I'd much appreciate your advice.
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