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It Is Safe To Link Your Card On Your Paypal Account?


roadsider
Rep Points: 1,970
Posted on April 3, 2009 at 3:53 am
don't have a credit card and even if I did don't thnk would'e linkd it to my paypal account

roadsider
Rep Points: 1,970
Posted on April 3, 2009 at 3:54 am
I just don't feel it's safe enough to divulge my card details online

vsgunnam
Rep Points: 410
Posted on April 7, 2009 at 12:42 am
In my experience, it is perfectly secure !

bluebird
Rep Points: 490
Posted on April 7, 2009 at 12:41 pm
In my experience, it's secure. I've never had any problems. Paypal  is good about sending messages to me whenever there's any activity on my card. I haven't heard of anyone getting their information compromised. So far so good..

scgodess
Rep Points: 370
Posted on April 7, 2009 at 12:49 pm
i've not had any problems with paypal.  I've been using it for years.  What you do have to watch out for is the "spoof" emails saying their from paypal and asking you to log into your paypal account from the email  or saying there's a problem with your account. 

ellie26
Rep Points: 160
Posted on April 7, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I think it is safe.  As long as you never clicked any emails that say it is from paypal, I think it is safe.  I verified my paypal with debit card. 

viperkill
Rep Points: 755
Posted on April 7, 2009 at 1:43 pm
PayPal protects your financial information with industry-leading security and fraud prevention systems. When you use PayPal, your financial information is not shared with the merchant. Once your payment is complete, you will be emailed a receipt for your transaction.Paypal is in general, pretty secure.So if your PayPal account was compromised (by one of the phishing emails) - I have a two step self test:

1. login to to your PayPal.com account - if it succeeds most likely it was not compromised.
2. see your account history: click "history" or "all activity" links. if you find transactions on your bank statement, it was compromised.

Contact PP customer service (i had to use it once because of seller dispute) and they were pretty responsive with email help.

Where for those comments which blame items not recieved and fraudulent activity - did you ever talk to PP customer service. especially for item never recieved.

most paypal sellers use PP shipping service so they can track if shipping address was provided by you. if yes, did the seller send the shipment. if yes, they can track it (so neither the buyer nor the seller can lie).

varushar
Rep Points: 720
Posted on April 8, 2009 at 1:48 am
It is perfectly ok to do that.. i never faced any problem

tenchi18ph
Rep Points: 1,140
Posted on April 8, 2009 at 4:33 am
I must agree that it's much safer to link the credit card in paypal and use it for online transactions than using the credit card directly.

woundedeagle13
Rep Points: 25
Posted on April 8, 2009 at 10:20 am
Well i guess paypal is amongst one of the most legit and genuine online payment processors. So that's why i think it is one of safest site to link your credit card details.
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