The person who received your money by mistake is the best person
to help you. That person can refund your money back to you in a
few clicks after logging in. Just email that person and ask for
the refund. If it gets nowhere then here is a PayPal Customer Service
phone number to call: 1-888-221-1161.

This number can be found after you login into your PayPal account.
You will find a Contact Us link at the bottom on the account overview
page. By clicking Contact Us you will see a help page which has another
link that says Help By Phone. Clicking it will get you the above
phone number. I once called that number and after some buttons later
I was able to talk to a live person. You can talk to the person for
as long as you need to describe the problem and listening to the help
suggested by the person. I am not sure they can cancel your payment.
I believe they will tell you to contact the person who received your
payment and ask for a refund. Unless the person is a thief you should be
able to get your money back quickly.

David

--- On Tue, 10/7/08, Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: PayPal... anyone know how to contact a living organism there??
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 7:43 PM
> > Have the seller make the inquiry. They are more
> receptive to sellers than
> > buyers for some reason. With enough offensive emails
> you will eventually get
> > a legitimate email or call from Paypal.
>
> Maybe, IF it was possible to actually send a message that
> someone
> would read (or even send them a message at all!).
>
> Unfortunately the following:
> +1-402-935-7733 (Personal Accounts)
> +1-402-935-2057 (Personal Accounts)
> are NOT lines to people; they just take you to the phone
> menu which
> doesn't have an option I can use, and the menus do not
> accept my phone
> number, without which I cannot complete the menu...
>
> So in other words PayPal has my money and there's no
> way to get it
> back. I might have to contact the police about this...
>
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin, New Zealand
> Fossil preparator
> Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut
> Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada
> <goose1047@gmail.com>