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Paypal not Confirming User's Account Email Addresses?

posted by martyb on Tuesday April 18 2017, @03:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the Email-confirmation-just-slows-us-down dept.

termigator writes:

Recently, I received an email from PayPal asking to confirm my email address for a new account. Since I do not use PayPal, I figured it was a phishing scam and ignored it. However, I started getting other emails, which included updated address information and a sales transaction. The name for the account was not mine (but the first name was the same), and the address was in a different state.

Looking at the raw email headers, it appeared to be legitimate emails from PayPal. What confused me was that I never responded to the email confirmation message, so why would PayPal allow a person to perform a transaction without confirmation? Since the email in question is a Gmail account, I have had since Gmail beta, I wondered if my account had been compromised, but there is nothing to indicate that. Another idea was someone could be intercepting/listening to my email, but that is a lot of effort to do for a simple paypal transaction.

The likely scenario is PayPal failed to check the account email and suspend any further actions until the address is confirmed. PayPal sends an email to confirm the address, but does not bother to wait for the confirmation.

I called PayPal support, and after some time and educating the support person on how technology works, the person put in a support ticket. Not sure if the problem will ever get resolved or if PayPal will admit they have a problem. As of now, I have not received any more emails. I will have to decide if it is worth my time to call support again and get the disposition of the ticket.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @05:50PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @05:50PM (#495929)

    I recently had to deal with paypal for the first time I can remember. I have a very old ebay account that I use rarely and I used it to buy someone a few months ago.

    Human trafficking with PayPal? I knew they were scum, but Geez, Louise!

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @07:29PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @07:29PM (#495978)

    I was wondering how much for the little girl? Sell them to me! Sell me your children, bwahahah!

    /Blues Brothers off