{"id":6332,"date":"2026-10-24T07:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/texas-man-gets-20-years-in-150k-paypal-refund-scam\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T07:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:14:38","slug":"texas-man-gets-20-years-in-150k-paypal-refund-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/texas-man-gets-20-years-in-150k-paypal-refund-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Man Gets 20 Years in $150K PayPal Refund Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> GRAYSON COUNTY, Texas \u2013 October 24, 2026 (STL.News) A Texas man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his involvement in an elaborate PayPal refund scam that defrauded five victims across Texas of nearly $150,000, according to prosecutors. Bryan Brundige, 54, of Killeen, Texas, received the prison sentence this week following an investigation into a fraud operation that used deceptive emails, fictitious refunds and cash couriers to obtain money from unsuspecting victims. The investigation exposed a scheme in which criminals impersonated PayPal representatives, convinced victims their accounts had been incorrectly charged, and then persuaded them to return<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/texas-man-gets-20-years-in-150k-paypal-refund-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAYSON COUNTY, Texas \u2013 October 24, 2026 (STL.News) A Texas man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his involvement in an elaborate PayPal refund scam that defrauded five victims across Texas of nearly $150,000, according to prosecutors&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}