I had no idea this would happen, I literally only opened the account to make this sale and they did ask me to verify the account with I.D. Even without verifying you can still transfer funds to other PayPal accounts. when they have left messages they are asking for the name that I made up. When these people say paypal is like a bank that is totally false because a bank will strictly only give you a bank account with valid I.D. I will block the numbers and emails. Thanks for the advice

Hi guys! I have ended up getting myself into a pickle with PayPal. I had never used PayPal before until 3 months ago. I sold an item on gumtree and the buyer paid with PayPal. I created a PayPal account specifically to sell this item to somebody, I didn’t want to show the buyer my real details like name address etc. I created the account with a made up name, address, date of birth and the genuine ones used was my email address and phone number. I know this was wrong and it’s classed has fraud but I didn’t think at the time, I didn’t think I would have any issues. I just wanted to use it for this transaction and then close down the account straight after. I didn’t upload any personal information like bank details and I didn’t verify the PayPal account, they was asking for id when I got paid from the buyer. I transferred the funds to my sons PayPal account so I could get the money. When I got paid I closed down the PayPal account and thought nothing more of it. I received an answer phone message from Moorcroft asking for the name that I had made up which is when I knew it was about the PayPal account. I checked my junk mail and saw it’s for the £300 I was paid and the buyer did a chargeback and was won in their favour so the PayPal account was -300. Moorcroft sent me a reference number so I can look online but the issue is I also need the date of birth used and I can’t remember the dob that I used to create the PayPal account. I really don’t know what to do and I am stuck in a pickle with this. Any help would be much appreciated. TIA