I am a 64 years old retired college teacher. No pension only life full of tensions. For the last 30 years I was learning Astrology and helping others free of charges. But I need to eat my bread and butter that too through self earning. Many of my clients are foreigners and I charge them after giving them Astrology guidance / advice under my pen name / online name "Surinder N Lineman", Lineman means a writer of "lines". Is that a crime?
I needed to collect my service charges( mind you post service not advance payment). So needed some portal or transaction facilitator.
Someone suggested PayPal / Rob Pal.
I downloaded this one and provided all the information / data they needed or asked for.
they accepted and approved my credentials and told me to start transactions on their website or whatever they had. Actually a trap for international scam like the fraudsters/ scamsters sitting in Nigeria.
After I asked my clients to pay me through these criminals and after these international robbers / Somalia like pirates knew that now they have many thousands of my hard earned money in their loot booty they immediately "froze" my money. Their emails are "no reply", no India phone, no helpline number, no call centre. A perfect set up / arrangement for Nigerians, Al Kayeda type of gang of international criminals.
The reason or the alibi which they give is that I used a credit card for their site. How I can do it when they never gave me any such card? I am an oldman I have never used any credit card in my life. I am scared of all cards, plastic money, scared of using even my ATM debit card.
And sometimes they say my credentials are not acceptable. Now a la Alkayeda will check my credentials. And if it were so why and how my account got operational? Ha.Ha. Dacoits, pirates and robbers.
Still if they want to check my credentials( I am being fair, even criminals should be given a chance) by google search my pen / online, name: "Surinder N Lineman".
Even if they are deemed to be right and I am not, even then who are they to rob my money? Either they should give it to me or return it to my clients.
I agree that Lock down has been hard on all of us and this PayPal is going bankrupt and broke but that does not at all mean you start robbing people like financial terrorists. There is a legal process to go bankrupt. Follow that.
Surinder Nath Sharma.

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