Paypal account verification Grrrr !

[cyberknight]

paypal have decided to verify my account as a random security check and have limited my account so i cannot actually pay for anything and have sent an email today saying that it can take up to 2 weeks for the account to be sorted out !
what utter flipping bow rocks
I was watching a couple of items on ebay and now i cannot even bid on them because i will not be able to pay .

 

[Rob3rt]

paypal have decided to verify my account as a random security check and have limited my account so i cannot actually pay for anything and have sent an email today saying that it can take up to 2 weeks for the account to be sorted out !
what utter flipping bow rocks
I was watching a couple of items on ebay and now i cannot even bid on them because i will not be able to pay .

Wait a sec, this is not what some random email said to you is it? Sounds phishy!

 

[cyberknight]

Wait a sec, this is not what some random email said to you is it? Sounds phishy!

No , i tried to pay via paypal for something from CRC and when i logged on it said so , i have even logged on directly to the paypal site to double check.
Just had paypal auto phone me for account verification but they cant verify my address so need to write a letter with security number .
I might be dumb but i can recognise spam

 

[asterix]

paypal have decided to verify my account as a random security check and have limited my account so i cannot actually pay for anything and have sent an email today saying that it can take up to 2 weeks for the account to be sorted out !
what utter flipping bow rocks
I was watching a couple of items on ebay and now i cannot even bid on them because i will not be able to pay .

Presumably they want your bank account details including logon info?

Have been with paypal for donkeys and never had a security check. Have had plenty for bank accounts I never knew I had.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I was watching a couple of items on ebay and now i cannot even bid on them because i will not be able to pay .

Did the email come from Mrs CyberK to curtail your profligate ebay expenditure?

 

[asterix]

Have you been hacked?

 

[TVC]

I've had similar because my card has expired they have limited my account until I update my details. Well, I've not used PayPal for years and don't intend to so I decided to close the account. The thing is, they won't let me close the account unless all the details are verified, including a bank card. I'm not giving them card details just so they can close an account I don't use, so they can go whistle, and I've redirected their e-mails to spam. Sod em.

 

[vernon]

Open a different paypal account wioth a different email address.....

 

[cyberknight]

Have you been hacked?

As i said i logged directly onto paypal via bookmarks rather than any link and changed my password and had to go through an account verification procedure, also got a password changed confirmation email etc .
its as velvet curtain says with regards to the verification procedure.

 

[Archie_tect]

I think I got a similar email cyber but just deleted it I can't check to see whether it was genuine or not... wouldn't respond to an email anyway no matter what it said.

 

[asterix]

As i said i logged directly onto paypal via bookmarks rather than any link and changed my password and had to go through an account verification procedure, also got a password changed confirmation email etc .
its as velvet curtain says with regards to the verification procedure.

Yes, but having had a credit card hacked either on a sony or a waterstones site, the card company used similar procedure next time we (Mrs A) tried to use the card. The card company gave very little away about what happened except they asked me to confirm an Amazon transaction that they were declining to accept. I've no idea how the hackers got the card details but they managed it. On the waterstones site the transaction went awry so I suspect it was their site although they said it wasn't. We lost nothing, however.

Have also had a problem on this site and yahoo simultaneously when I was unable to log on to either back in December this year. On both sites the password ceased to work and no, they weren't the same password. I have now made it so I am never logged on to web sites without typing the password myself.

Earlier this week I got an email from Yahoo asking me to change my password because an email had been sent from a contact whose Yahoo account had been penetrated by someone in Indonesia! Fortunately we'd not had any strangers logging in to our account.

 

[cyberknight]

Yes, but having had a credit card hacked either on a sony or a waterstones site, the card company used similar procedure next time we (Mrs A) tried to use the card. The card company gave very little away about what happened except they asked me to confirm an Amazon transaction that they were declining to accept. I've no idea how the hackers got the card details but they managed it. On the waterstones site the transaction went awry so I suspect it was their site although they said it wasn't. We lost nothing, however.

Have also had a problem on this site and yahoo simultaneously when I was unable to log on to either back in December this year. On both sites the password ceased to work and no, they weren't the same password. I have now made it so I am never logged on to web sites without typing the password myself.

Earlier this week I got an email from Yahoo asking me to change my password because an email had been sent from a contact whose Yahoo account had been penetrated by someone in Indonesia! Fortunately we'd not had any strangers logging in to our account.

No Transactions or activity on the account, i did not receive an email and the password had not ceased to work .
Edit , the account was actually suspsended on the 2nd but waited till i logged in to ask for verification.

 

[ianrauk]

I wouldn't give them any information, as Vernon has said. Just open another account.

 

[Andrew_P]

No Transactions or activity on the account, i did not receive an email and the password had not ceased to work .
Edit , the account was actually suspsended on the 2nd but waited till i logged in to ask for verification.

Do you use it a lot? I thought PayPal had forced all users to verify their address as part of new EU money laundering rules. At a guess their automated software failed to find you on a recent Electoral role at your current address or the address on your PayPal account. Have you moved recently? The normal verification is though two small deposits in to your back account with a 4 digit code that you then enter on the PayPal site.

 

[Andrew_P]

To be honest the last thing I would do is open another account, they will link it ban him. They will link it through IP address, Security cookies on the PC/Laptop plus name and address. You might be able to have two accounts and them not to bother you even though it is against their T&C's but if one is suspended they will link them and then ban.