If you are used to getting payments sent to your Paypal account, you may have noticed in the past couple of weeks that you are suddenly being charged a fee even for Paypal to Paypal payments! In other words, where it used to be free to send and receive payments between Paypal accounts, suddenly (and seemingly without warning), Paypal users are getting hit with fees for inter-Paypal transfers! It has to do with their new, amended Paypal terms of service, which we include below.
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Articles on PaypalIf you are used to getting payments sent to your Paypal account, you may have noticed in the past couple of weeks that you are suddenly being charged a fee even for Paypal to Paypal payments! In other words, where it used to be free to send and receive payments between Paypal accounts, suddenly (and seemingly without warning), Paypal users are getting hit with fees for inter-Paypal transfers! It has to do with their new, amended Paypal terms of service, which we include below. Millions of Paypal users around the world found Paypal down, and were told that it was a Paypal internal server error, and to contact webmaster@paypal.com. "Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@paypal.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error," said the error. As Paypal went down yet again - and this time in what appears to have been an outage lasting several hours and affecting people on several continents - people are looking for Paypal alternatives. But are there Paypal alternatives? The answer is a resounding yes - there are alternatives to Paypal, and they are looking better all the time. In an interesting move that may or may not be tied to the economic times, Paypal has introduced a new service in which it exhorts you to proposition people and offer to pay them to do stuff. Or, as they say in one of their online ads, "Get stuff done for money". "Get stuff done for money," says the ad. "Use PayPal's "Do Stuff for Money" to get your friends to do stuff for money. Because sometimes just asking isn't enough." Here's something that we just learned the hard way - from direct personal experience. If you file a dispute with Paypal - and then escalate it to a claim, as Paypal encourages you to do - there is only one situation in which Paypal won't then immediately dismiss your claim, making it a win for a non-compliant, non-responsive, or just plain sleazy seller. A new scam going around the internet, originating from "security@paypalfraudcheck.com", tells Paypal users that their account has been limited, and to remove the limit, they must scan and email a copy of their passport or driver's license, a copy of their Paypal credit or debit card, and a copy of a recent utility bill. There has been a new rash of "Receipt for your payment to" eBay Paypal phishing spam which is intended to elicit a shock response causing the target to rush to log into their Paypal account to figure out why they are being charged hundreds to thousands of dollars for an eBay purchase which they know that they didn't actually make. Paypal has introduced a new feature which allows you to use your Paypal account to shop online even at websites that don't accept Paypal. The way it works is that Paypal generates for you a virtual credit card number - that is a credit card number which works (and appears) like a MasterCard number, but which really ties back to and is paid by the funds in your Paypal account. These virtual credit cards are known as Paypal Secure Cards. You can use a Paypal Secure Card just as you would a regular credit card when shopping online. Have you bought anything using PayPal in the last week? Keep an eye open for delivery, as the merchant may be unable to promptly process the order due to a bug in PayPal's Instant Payment Notification (IPN) system. The problem all began when PayPal made an update to the Paypal IPN system some time early Thursday morning Pacific Standard Time. Later that morning PayPal's ecommerce customers began reporting problems. Here's what happened. Paypal has announced that they are going to block the Apple Safari web browser, along with a few other browsers. The online payment service, purchased by eBay for $1.5B back in 2002, in the good old days of rampant Internet mergers and acquisitions, has become a frequent target of phishers and hackers. Anxious to recapture their good name and to offer to sellers and buyers alike a more secure environment, PayPal plans to discontinue support for web browsers that do not include anti-phishing capabilities. If this plan goes through, PayPal will block Safari and older versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Netscape. Paypal phish are as common as the cold. Here, the newest one claims that there have been foreign attempts to log into your Paypal account, and explains that if it wasn't you (which, of course, it wasn't) you should click on the link to verifiy your identity. Where does the link really go? Not to Paypal, that's for sure. In fact, it really goes to http://i-195-137-106-138.freedom2surf.net/login, which is a very convincing Paypal phishing site. We are asked all the time "How can I make money on the Internet?" or "Where can I learn how to make money on the Internet?" In fact, we're asked often enough about how to make money online - and we have a vested enough interest in making sure that people do it appropriately, without spamming and following the rules and observing best practices - that we now offer this article. If you have been frustrated trying to reach Paypal, well, you're not alone. Countless people have been unable to reach the Paypal website, receiving, instead, this error. A brand new phishing attempt invokes both Starbucks and Paypal, and starts out by saying "This email confirms that you have a pending payment to Starbucks (sales@starbucks.com) $119.88 USD using PayPal. This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as "PAYPAL *StarbucksStore"." Don't fall for it! Of course, all the links which appear to go to PayPal really go to a newly registered site called qunxy.com. Don't go there! PayPal Mobile has not yet been officially rolled out, but it is available, right now! Here are the details! Is it a scam? Is it spam? Is it phishing? Is it legal? Someone calling themselves Garren Fitzenreiter, using the email address admin@keithware.com, is sending people Paypal invoices out of the blue, with the subject "help me pay for my inspection sticker ticket and ill love you forever. thanks" There is a new PayPal phishing campaign going on. It warns you about a "New email address added to your PayPal account!" Whether it's the world's largest auction house, Paypal, or the world's most believed and mourned pontiff, Pope John Paul II, spammers and scammers are not above invoking their name in an effort to relieve you of your money. Even before Pope John Paul II's ... |
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