PayPal Subscription Charges From Social Catnip Are Fraudulent

If you got a recurring PayPal subscription charge from Social Catnip for around $30, it isn't from us. We don't run a subscription model, and we have never billed anyone that way. Dispute it with PayPal.

Lately I've been getting calls from people trying to cancel a ~$30 subscription they think they signed up for with us. They didn't. Social Catnip doesn't sell a subscription product, and we don't pull recurring payments out of anyone's PayPal. We bill by invoice — we send you a bill, you pay the bill, that's the whole arrangement. No silent monthly draw, no auto-renew you forgot about.

So if you see a charge like this and we never invoiced you, it's almost certainly fraud riding on our name. It happens. Scammers borrow a real company's name because it makes the line item look legitimate enough to ignore. Don't ignore it.

If the charge looks like the screenshot below, it did not come from me and it is not affiliated with my business. Dispute it.

Sean Gowing Owner, Social Catnip

What to do about it

• Open the charge in PayPal and confirm there was no invoice from us.
• Report it to PayPal as an unauthorized transaction and request a dispute.
• Cancel the "subscription" inside PayPal so it can't bill again.
• If you want to double-check whether a bill is genuinely ours, reach us directly — every real charge from Social Catnip ties back to an invoice we sent you.

For the record, our actual work is marketing technology integrations — wiring Webflow sites, analytics, and CRMs together. That's invoiced project and retainer work, never a sneaky $30 PayPal subscription.

FAQ

Does Social Catnip charge a monthly PayPal subscription? No. We have no subscription product and we don't take recurring PayPal payments. Every charge from us is tied to an invoice we sent you first.

I got charged ~$30 by "Social Catnip" on PayPal. Is it real? If we never sent you an invoice, no — it's fraudulent. Dispute it with PayPal as an unauthorized charge.

How do I dispute it? Open the transaction in PayPal, report it as unauthorized, request a dispute or chargeback, and cancel the subscription so it can't bill you again.