Complaint Review: PayPal.com And Emily Whittington

This is about a client Emily Whittington making a fraudulent charge back for Google AdWords advertising services I rendered from March 6 - March 10.

On March 6th, I submitted a bid on a project at GetAFreelancer.com. She asked me to contact her at her Yahoo ID: feelgd149. I added her to my MSN messenger.

That project on GetAFrelancer.com was deleted yesterday. Here's the link to the project poster's profile: http://www.getafreelancer.com/users/627550.html. If you google her Yahoo ID handle feelgd149, these results show up as Google cached her projects: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=feelgd149&btnG=Search. She had an affiliate account with HostGator.com. She was trying to earn commission if people signed up through her affiliate ads on Google AdWords. Here's her Affiliate link: secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=anderson24-first.

She hired me and transfered $100 that day asking me to set up the account on AdWords so I can pay for ads to be shown on Google search engine. She said to keep $20 for my management fees and the rest be applied towards advertising her affiliate business.

When the $100 were used up she sent another $100 the next day. I applied that towards Google advertising as well.

On March 10th I got an email from Paypal that Emily has claimed unauthorized activity and PayPal retunred 193.60 back to her leaving me with a negative balance on my account of $193.60. I feel it is unfair that I had to bear the burden of paying for the fraudulent charge backs for services I have provided. I am requesting Paypal to remove the negative balance amount as I did not do anything wrong and it is a unjust punishment for being a seller. Why do I have to pay for the buyer's fraudulent actvity? Since then no contact from Emily. She has completely disappeared off the Internet.

How can I get negative balance removed and account restored back to $0 balance?

Augustwind
Raleigh, North Carolina
U.S.A.