You’re reading this right now and it’s because you want to learn how to make illegal money on PayPal; the giant money transfer platform on the web.
Right now, PayPal has over 400 million users.
It’s easy to sign up for an account and eventually start using it to receive funds from any country of the world.
And although there are some blacklisted countries on PayPal, countries that have a restricted use of the platform, the platform still serves most countries of the world.
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That’s enough already about PayPal, and you should get your account first if you don’t already have one (before proceeding with this blog post).
Want to make money illegally on PayPal?
Here are 9 ways that actually work and people use these strategies to make this happen till this day.
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How to Make Illegal Money on Paypal: 9 Practical & Active Ways to Make this Happen.
1. Sell ghost virtual items.
This is the first idea here and it’s all about creating an ecommerce store where you sell digital products like softwares and guides to do stuff.
Dealing in software sales, you’ll make money illegally faster.
With an ecommerce store, make it so that before getting links to download virtual products, you’ll make payments first using a verified payment gateway; PayPal.
And it must be verified.
After receiving payments, you can decide to redirect clients to a blank page or a 404 error page indicating that they should try making payment again if they’re not taken to a “payment successful” message page.
If they pay twice, then they keep getting the same message until they’re interested.
The work really is to build an e-commerce store for virtual products you really don’t have.
2. Smishing.
Smishing can get you arrested, and every other idea on this page can get you arrested too.
But the idea behind smishing is reaching out to people via text messages affirming that you’re from PayPal and that you want personal information to check out their account history and activities.
You can go as far as saying you’re the agent in charge of their PayPal accounts and that you’ve noticed some activities you’d like to scrutinize closely.
While the chances of people letting out their personal information are getting tinier by the day, you could get lucky.
3. Perform a crypto fraud.
Crypto is a booming topic.
And you can explore this idea by building a website where people get to invest in crypto to get 4× or more of their investment in a week or less.
So, you can draft a policy for your website and make everything look very legit.
The more professional it looks, the more money you could make from desperate and greedy people looking to double their money without working for it.
You can write up a story telling them you’ve helped people invest and also write out testimonials of people (you’ve never met in your life) with their testimonies of how your system has helped them double their money.
Go to the ends of being legit, but once they invest, that’s it. Investment can only be PayPal funds.
They invest cash, but you trade for them and send 4× or more of their capital within a week (in policy).
4. Money doubling scam.
Similar to the crypto fraud, this time, you’re not trading crypto.
It’s the same strategy, but different stories to how you invest their money.
While the first is that you trade crypto profitably, this time it could be a story that you’re an investment firm and all you do is buy into businesses that boom in profit massively within days.
If you’re into the food sector or transportation sector, it’ll be more convincing and alluring enough for people to send you PayPal funds with hopes of getting their money back along with a 2× (100%) profit.
You do business with their money and send two times their investment to them in a month.
Or two months (if you really want to seem so legit).
5. Phishing.
There are so many ways to make phishing work, but it’s basically a fake PayPal website where people can log into their account but never really log in because it’s a fake website.
It’s like creating a twin PayPal login page to collect the log in details of people who attempt to log into their account.
There are a bunch of formats to make people want to log into their account.
Some of the reasons include validity checks (more on this later), account action verification, and more.
You can send a ton of people messages asking them to confirm a recent activity on their account.
For as many of them who click the link to verify the action (that was never there), you can easily access their PayPal account using the log in details they supply.
6. Vishing.
Just like phishing where you need to create a website, this time you’ll be calling on the phone or using a voice note to get in touch with PayPal users asking them to supply their login details just to verify an action on their account.
You can call and say you’re from Paypal, and you need them to supply their login details or the pin and expiration date of any card connected to their PayPal account.
It needs to be a matter or urgency so that there’s no time to think logically about it.
If they’ve got the time to ask questions and think about it, there’s every chance they’ll figure out you’re not from Paypal.
7. Sell ghost physical items.
Selling ghost physical items is another way to make illegal money on PayPal.
You use PayPal as your preferred payment methods and have a policy for clients to pay upfront before items are delivered to them.
So, this could work like this; you create an e-commerce store online – a fully designed e-commerce store with a niche of products like just t-shirts and trousers.
You’re basically just lifting pictures from other websites to your ghost ecommerce store.
Whenever people click to order, they’re taken to the payment page where they make the payments and wait for the product to get to them.
If you’ll be setting up an e-commerce store for this, it must be professionally designed, if not you could get tons of bad reviews online about the untrustworthiness of the store based on the messy design and typos.
8. Package activation scam.
So, you’re on one end here not from PayPal.
But then you email or text or even call someone and present them the idea of loaning them an amount of money or sending them a powerful software they can use to track the location and messages of their friends and family.
And whoever.
But this will require some form of activation monetarily.
So, if the package is only $200 dollars, you can ask them to pay an activation fee of $75 bucks before they’re able to receive a link to download it.
More than 95% of people won’t fall for this.
But if you’re lucky, you could get in touch with greedy folks who’ll be more than willing to pay; especially if you’re offering to send them a system to make money passively without any work.
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9. Account validity check.
This is basically reaching out to someone by email claiming to be a resource person from PayPal.
You send them an email message telling them they’re account received a validity check from PayPal but they’ll need to pay some amount of money to confirm they’re still in active use of the account.
The validity check needs to be tied to a cash deposit from PayPal, and they can only activate the account using a link you’ll send to them.
A link to a phishing PayPal website.
So, you can let them know that there’s a deposit of $0.6 dollars on their account, and it’s basically a deposit from PayPal to confirm their account activity.
And if they don’t activate it, further actions can be taken to deactivate their account.
Once they’re unto the link you send them, you can take out their login details to access their account fully.
How to Make Illegal Money on Paypal: 9 Practical & Active Ways to Make this Happen – Final Words.
Truth is, there are ways to make money illegally on PayPal, but then you’d be ready to face the consequences that come with being caught along the line.
While there are illegal ways to make money off PayPal, there are still very legitimate ways to make money using PayPal.
And if you invest enough time, you could build a money-making system in a couple of months.
From selling ghost virtual items to package activation, these ways work and people still get away with them day by day.
They’re not passive income streams, and they might get you into some serious trouble.
IMO, I’d suggest you stick to what works.
Legally.