OK lads thanks for replying. So without being too enquiring here, I hope, have you guys had your bank details registered with this mob without problems for some time?redziller wrote:Well paypal's got to get the money somehow - it's a trade between convenience and risk. I remember thinking the 1st transaction a pain to set up but since then no worries, and prompt email notifications give confidence.Chris Monk wrote:I wasn't so happy about using PayPal but so far it seems to have worked OK for me. Seem to get quite a lot of spam about my PayPal account but as long as I don't reply to them I should be alright.Hobo wrote: That's normal with PayPal. It's pretty secure and if you give credit card details elsewhere, someone still inputs your details on a pc somewhere, so it's probably more risky.
As you say Chris PayPal gets used as a front for fraud attempts but we're all getting the message I think - if an email's asking you to verify your password it's 100% certainly a criminal that needs to be reported - either to http://www.antiphishing.org/report_phishing.html or with the later browsers with their built-in tools.
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