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Paypal 'Risk Alert Icon/Flag'
 

Hi All,

I logged on to my Paypal today and have numerous payments from today that have red flags next to them. When I hover over the flag it just states "Risk Alert", there is no further information.

Does anyone know what this means?

All the payments are from verified accounts and don't seem dodgy.

Just worried the Paypal Police will start sniffing around.

I was just about to ask this myself actually i also got the "risk factor" flag on payments coming in today!!

My guess is alot of people got it today -I called my US buddy up aswell seems he has it aswell with payments coming in!! It's going to be an interesting discussion i think.

I think paypals testing something out - there definitely upto something!!

Nothing to worry about i think.

I think there finally going to go down harder on buyers who scam and who have alot of returns - they'll be getting flagged up alot if there scammers hence the "risk factor" thats just my opinion rather logical i think.

ive had the same on my accounts too, all transactions today flagged

same here.

just to confirm its happening on my real accounts too not just stealth ones

Yeah it's happening on real and stealth accounts - there simply testing out there new system against buyers i think.

i think happened to lots of people today ,there is a thread in ebay community about this.

Thanks for your replies... phew - hopefully nothing to worry about then!

This stealth/paypal business isn't good for my health lol!

Same thing happen with me.
 

Same thing happen with me.

When I get payments with e-checks I get that littel red flag. Maybe it has something to do with that. Just saying, or paypal is playing with things atm.

Thank god it's not just me - most of todays sales have it

:ranger:

Great....

Either no sales or alerts when you get them :smash::smash:

its an error on ebays part everyone is getting them

OK lots of my payments coming in are showing 'Risk Alert' and ALSO asking me to UPGRADE TO A BUSINESS ACCOUNT!

Do I upgrade? Im currently using Premier...!

it's asking you to upgrade to business account? were? by email or on the paypal?

Whats the message

Log into your PayPal if you're not already using a 'business paypal' it should be showing the word UPGRADE next to the word 'Premier'..

Hasn't shown there before at all, only appeared when the Red flags did..

Anyone else showing this is the case?

why NOT upgrade ? its not a big deal,just take 2 minute's

Just got it too... Last 3 transactions...

One of my customers tried to tell me it had something to do with reebook and Nike switch? Have no clue where he would get that info... :>

Risk Alert!

it started on one of my accounts last night on a sale of an ipad first thing i thought was ok this account is ****** lol did a little searching and found out i wasnt the only one

Just confirmed it 20x times on a confirmed business account too...

I have had issues with tracking not entering automatically lately...

Maybe someone inside paypal a employee is getting revenge... \

Or they are finally just telling the truth.... EVERY TRANSACTION IS HIGH RISK! lol

Same here, I also have Risk alert.
I like this :p

I got the same selling some cheap cd-r's from the local store.

why do I have some very sneaky feeling that these 'red flags' are what is used to put someone in the 'HIGH RISK' category, meaning if you were to receive a certain amount of red flag transactions that either resulted in a chargeback / buyer protection case or a negative feedback.. this is what could cause a limitation ?

Am I thinking too hard about this or ..:faint:

Thinking way too much into it. GB already mentioned the answer to all of it above.

A very simple search on paypal would take you to exactly what it is. They are doing some work on their system and some payments will have it.

No sense in realy even speculating. Its completely random by looking at the records of the buyers in each. No new, or old, not just echecks, etc.

Just have to explain to everyone when they question you if you are paying is all.

Yea at first I thought maybe they are showing us something by mistake, something they only see from the admin side of things. However, when I checked my accounts every transaction was included with red flags.