PAYPAL PAYMENT BY PHONE NUMBER HOW TO
PAYPAL PAYMENT BY PHONE NUMBER INSTALL
PAYPAL PAYMENT BY PHONE NUMBER WINDOWS

Well the window requesting you to enter a mobile phone number is still there but this time the button “not now” is visible so to bypass and access account. This morning for no reason I tried to login to my Paypal account. I haven’t yet had the occasion to try it out. It is rumoured that access to your Paypal account is possible at the moment you make an online purchase by opening a new window while on the transaction page.

PAYPAL PAYMENT BY PHONE NUMBER INSTALL

Although app is outdated and is no longer supported, it did install correctly.

PAYPAL PAYMENT BY PHONE NUMBER WINDOWS

I was still locked out my own account.Īfter reading alejr’s comment on this thread I was curious enough to check if the WinAuth app would work with my Windows as it is. So my initial email request wasn’t read by anybody.

PAYPAL PAYMENT BY PHONE NUMBER HOW TO

Well the only response I got from Paypal “service” was a system automated email inviting me to login with the usual instructions as how to solve your problem. But it finally landed as a prerequisite having a mobile phone number if you wanted to access your account and was stupidly asked why I wanted to access my account. Then it was a known technical issue for all account holders without a mobile phone number and that PayPal was working on a solution to come. I was told at first it was a technical issue and that case would escalate higher up. I repeated this process 3 times to get 3 different stories. No way to contact them but phone to their customer service number (female bot voice), go through a puzzle of questions and numbers to dial in, with an half hour wait until you get in touch with somebody who won’t help you because they can’t. No warnings, no messaging to my email to advise of the coming change. And my IP phones are not considered valid.

I’m locked out of my own account since I don’t have or use any cell phone. Protecting their gains and profits is PayPal’s priority, but said to be holder’s account security. Since PayPal has gone private to shareholders they lost significant amounts of money to hackers retrieving small amounts from millions of accounts. For the last 2 months I’ve been unable to access my PayPal account because of this recent PayPal scheme that’s been applied worlwide for the last 2-3 years in sort of a random manner. I get the same window requesting to provide a mobile phone number just after entering user name and password. Having said that, I will add that I love PayPal and fully appreciate the real extra layer of security and protection they provide when purchasing and paying for things online but this new phone number requirement is not cool with me at all. You should never be forced to provide a phone number or even have a phone in order to use any type of service. What if, dare I say, you didn’t have a phone (gasp!) with which to provide a number and you instead only chose to utilize email as your primary source of communication? Should you then be penalized for this and subsequently not be allowed to use PayPal’s services? I say absolutely not. In once sense, I understand how this could indeed be another added layer of “protection”, but it should not be a requirement to provide a phone number in order to be allowed to continue to use your account. It seems to be an attempt to have every single piece of personal/identifiable information about you they can in order to “protect” you. Yup. Same thing and I am not impressed one bit.

Paypal payment by phone number