I am signing up for a Pay Pal account. They request that I put my phone and address, but what are the dangers?
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I don't why they need the info. I do know one thing, my husband wasn't satisfied with an item that he had purchased, so he gave the seller a bad rating. A few days later, his phone rang. We didn't recognize the number. It was the seller he gave the bad rating too! This guy cursed him out for it. He complained to my husband that because he gave him a bad rating, his Christmas sales would go down. He called several times until my husband finally reversed his rating. It was horrible.
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It's always bad mail. None of these people are e-mailing or writing to you to offer free stuff out of the goodness of their hearts - there's always more in it for them than for you, or they wouldn't be doing it.\n\nOne thing they may be doing is trying to establish a "business relationship", so they can get round telemarketing no-call lists. Or they may just be looking for people who respond to junk mail, so you'll get a load more. Another scam is offering a "free" product, then charging so much for P&P or "handling fees" that you've effectively bought it.\n\nYou have never been "specially selected". Anyone whose address they can lay their hands on is special. Beware personalised messages, these are really easy to do, it doesn't make them an exception.\n\nThe scammers have an answer for everything. If it doesn't feel right - bin it, walk away, don't respond, don't look back.
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i will agree with firefox on what he says also, the less  banking you do on your p.c. the less you have to worry about getting hacked or in troubel by those who want to steal your info. do not take this the wrong way, but if you are on this sight asking about on line banking, then you do not know much about it and that would tell me you do not have your P.c. set up the right way to stop the "bad guys". I do all my banking and bill paying the old way,yes it might take me a bit longer, but if someone wants to get into my system the only thing they will find are my high scores on saved games and some family photos,ect....nothing that would harm me.
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you should never pay an activation fee\nthat's a rip off\nyou could take it to your bank and ask their advice on it
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You're paying for the service of a safe transaction, cheap considering if somebody stole your identity...your doing your customer a service, not letting your customer/buyer get charged is an incentive to buy from a paypal business.
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As far as i know, paypal do not require you to have a US physical address or US bank account.\n\nThey can transfer money to your country's bank account , anywhere in the world.\n\nthey do not offer service to some of the countries.\n\nanyway, you can check some of the following websites to accept payments. NO US physical address required, no us bank account required.\n\nwww.multicards.com\nwww.ccnow.com\nwww.2checkout.com\nwww.ipay.com\nwww.ibill.com\n\n2checkout.com is the best, with real time approval and quick payment processing.\n\ngive it a try.
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from USPS.com  "The Postal Store® will accept any of the following major credit cards: VISA, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, and Diners Club. Pay Pal is not accepted."\n\nIF YOU ARE TRYING TO RESPOND BY CLICKING A LINK IN AN AN EMAIL CLAIMING TO BE FROM FROM PAYPAL - DON'T!!!.  The email could be from a a scammer that is phishing for your account information.\n\nCONTACT PAYPAL IMMEDIATELY FROM THE 'Contact Us' link on their home page - again, NOT BY CLICKING A LINK IN AN EMAIL, and let them know your account has been compromised and contest the charges.\n\nPaypal provides a phone number for customer service: \nPayPal Customer Service Agents are available to help you during the following times:\nCall us at: 1-402-935-2050 (a U.S. telephone number)\n4:00 AM PST to 10:00 PM PST Monday through Friday\n6:00 AM PST to 8:00 PM PST on Saturday and Sunday
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it is free to set a paypal account. just click "register" and answer the questions...\n\n-Doc-
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No.They are saying you needed your card number.Don't go to the site EVER again!
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Actually he does need your password to build the 'buy now' buttons to add the HTML code to your web site shopping cart. This makes the pay pal so easy for a web designer, all you do is copy and paste the HTML code that pay pal generates. This code links the item you are selling to your pay pal account.\n\nWhat you can do is change the password after the shopping cart is built. If you still feel uncomfortable, call pay pal to discuss.
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I've been using PayPal for years and I have never had an issue with them.  Are you sure it was PayPal that ripped you off or did you get taken by a scam?
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You can have them draw it from your PayPal balance and if there is not enough to cover it from your bank account or even your credit card. There are instructions on the site to have your bank account or credit card validated.
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Bad move subscribing to those things....\nSometimes the only way is to change phone numbers.\nOr if they're coming via email block the address
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You have to have at least one card on file in order to keep your PayPal account active. The same is true for Ebay.\nYou can close your account if you want of course.
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I dont think that you can. You would have to go through the service provider and I think that it is a violation of one's privacy for a provider to just give out the number when they have a contract and everything.  But I dont know, that just makes sense to me.
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to use paypal yo must sign up for an account on www.paypal.com you will be required to submit a credit card number and/or bank account number.  I have been using paypal for a long time and have never been ripped off.  I'm sure there will be the person out there who will try to rip you off, but no more then if you were using a different form of payment.  And paypal has a dispute resolution system, and If they determine that you were ripped off, they will give you your money back.
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"national securiy" is in they eye (ear?) of the beholder.\nwhether or not you think you are doing something illegal may be irrelevent. also, there is money to be made off your personal information-which will hopefully never be misused by commercial corporations. but what are the odds of your conversation being targeted out of the entire American cell-phone user population?