Many of you may already know what this plan that the railway company offers us is about. Specifically, we mean that young people, between the ages of 18 and 30, will be able to travel in our country and in Europe much cheaper starting Monday, July 1, 2024. All thanks to what is known as Young Summer Plan.
Here we refer to an initiative approved by the Government on June 4. This initiative includes important discounts for train travel, bus and Interrail, this summer. In order to benefit from it, if we are in that age range, we only have to register on the website of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility in order to request a code. Ticket reservations started a couple of days ago, but that’s when the problems started for some.
And as has been seen in various accounts of the social network, former Twitter, some users who have made payments with PayPal are getting an unpleasant surprise. It must be taken into account that this is a secure payment platform that we can use on a multitude of websites and online services. But from what has been seen, in this specific case some security flaws are occurring.
Unwanted payments on the Renfe website with PayPal
Obviously, to reserve the tickets belonging to this new program approved by the Government, Renfe Youth Summer, one of the payment methods that we can use is the PayPal platform. However, after making the payment as such, many users are seeing other unauthorized charges being carried out.
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As some of those affected have made clear on the aforementioned social network The worst thing about all this is that, as some of those affected point out, this unpleasant situation takes place after using the official and legitimate website of Renfe itself.
Not only that, there are also those who point out that after contacting the railway company, they have not received any response or solution. Everything indicates that it is a failure of the website itself when reserving the tickets belonging to the Young Summer initiative.
Therefore, if you have been one of the many affected, the first thing you should do is disconnect your Paypal account immediately. Aside from that, you should also file a complaint with the payment platform, which offers us insurance for this type of situation.
It must be taken into account that many have been affected and you will not be the only ones to file this claim to get your money back. All this while waiting for both entities to solve the problem as soon as possible.
