Okay here's what happens to me ...
I pay for an auction (or something) using my
paypal accout. A day or two goes buy and I get
an email telling me that someone has illegally
accessed my bank account and my Paypal account
has been FROZEN. So I try to stay calm and go to
check out my account ... well not only did paypal
free the bad guys from my account, they also
froze me out of it. I couldn't login. So when I
try to go search for help to get things like an
email address or better yet PHONE NUMBER to call
I'm told that I need to LOGIN in order to get
that info! Imagine that, I can't even do that!
Okay, so after cursing every four letter word and
then some, I figure out a way to trick paypal
into changing my password (so I can get into my
account) and then manage to make contact with
paypal so I can get some info. Mind you the
contact is the email variety so I have to wait
for a reply. It turns out (by me viewing my
account) that no illegal access was made (I
confirmed this with my bank). So paypal lifts
the freezing but then proceeds to tell me that
since it was once frozen I'm no longer able to
have this bank account available. (All this is
under security ... remember I've already tricked
them into changing my password on an account that
was supposed to be frozen). So since they said
the bank account could no longer be used or
reinstated, I deleted it from the account.
Curious as to how secure their security was, I
attempted to reinstate it again. So I put in the
info and amazingly Paypal made those 2 deposits!
(Remember this very same account wasn't supposed
to be EVER reaccessible via paypal). So I
thought this was too good to be true ...so when I
found out what the deposits were I filled in the
blanks in the paypal for and once again
Paypal's 'security' system allowed me to
reinstate my account ....
So Paypal has little if any security ... I
managed to avert two major security issues that
they 'take pride' in to not only get access to my
account (when it was supposedly blocked
completely) and they I was able to get the very
same account that was supposed to be banned from
use (because some non-existent person attempted a
non-existent illegal access that paypal said
happened). So please don't have any faith in
their security. They never resolved this issue
on their end (eventually I called the company and
never had a return phone call). And I had people
who were waiting for auction payments which this
slowed them done. Paypal users beware. This
could happen to you! |