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Post by nanotm on Jan 27, 2016 14:39:51 GMT
@kopiert wrote ( I am considering getting a pre paid card just for internet purchases) How does that work? I didn't know such a system was available... Can you have a card with credit on it but not linked to your bank? I'm very interested in such a way to pay for goods... Please don't tell me it's a visa or credit card as I refuse to have one of them. yes but in the uk you loose a lot of money pre charging it if its a regular use item, and most companies providing such services put you under a 24 mth contract and charge you a monthly fee .... if your needing coils get them from amazon or from a uk vape store, in both cases you can choose to pay with your card via a non paypal service. personally I have a credit card and unlinked my bank account from paypal as it got accessed 19 times in 3 weeks to make fraudulent purchases (several of which after paypal had blocked me from accessing the account by putting a freeze on it) I rang them from my landline and they claimed I wasn't really me because all the security info had just been changed on the account...... that was some years ago though and in the last 5 hasn't happened, with respect to the payment details getting affected their is every chance you were being hijacked by a MITM system through a fake website, which they used to keep the connection open after you had returned ot the store and then copied your card details down and skimmed them through a till until it wouldn't let them spend any more .... vigilance is the key and I use paypal a lot but its not infallible, indeed they gifted the primary problem to website holders by doing the page redirect from vendor to paypal hompage, you can tell if its a direct secure connection because your email address will already be prefilled in the login box, when your going through an MITM attack vector then the only indication is no pre filled account name (yes some cookies are actually good for personal protection even if they track your online activities) I've been using paypal for 12 years and I've never had an issue. It's encrypted. There is no way your details can be passed on to a third party. Well, not unless you're using outdated software with insecure ciphers and even that's a stretch. www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.htmlnot entirely true, ssl labs gave out genuine certs to all sorts of dodgy domains its been in the news a lot in the last 5 years in fact only last month there was another story about dodgy certs being issued to more than 2000 active websites, https is more secure but paypal is non compliant and nor are any Chinese websites ....
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Post by Ewol on Jan 27, 2016 15:22:42 GMT
Their certificate isn't 'dodgy' you can check it yourself. It's issued by Symantec Corporation.
I'm sorry, but paypal is not leaking credit card information. Not even the NSA can break that encryption, they can only break weaker 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman.
All of these 'issues' are user error. Keep your software up to date and follow standard security practices and things like stolen credit card information doesn't happen.
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Post by Pacer on Jan 27, 2016 15:45:11 GMT
I'm not getting into a blame thing here all I can say is what happened to me, I have had PayPal myself for years without any issues... However as far as i'm concerned it can only be one of the 2 where my card was cloned -used or what ever you call it... FastTech or PayPal Ewol as far as I know my new laptop is up to date, running windows 8 and Kaspersky pure 3.0
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Post by Lee on Jan 27, 2016 16:19:08 GMT
I have never liked the idea of paypal once they decided you needed a bank account tied to your account
Ten years ago, you only needed a card on it Then they decided to only allow cards from the country of residence Then you needed you bank account linked
Having one card linked, ie a credit card with low credit limit is one thing, having full access to your bank account is extracting the urine
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Post by flavourtank on Jan 27, 2016 16:44:26 GMT
I have never liked the idea of paypal once they decided you needed a bank account tied to your account Ten years ago, you only needed a card on it Then they decided to only allow cards from the country of residence Then you needed you bank account linked Having one card linked, ie a credit card with low credit limit is one thing, having full access to your bank account is extracting the urine the can't extract my urine cos I ain't even got a pot lol
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2016 22:11:51 GMT
@kopiert wrote ( I am considering getting a pre paid card just for internet purchases) How does that work? I didn't know such a system was available... Can you have a card with credit on it but not linked to your bank? I'm very interested in such a way to pay for goods... Please don't tell me it's a visa or credit card as I refuse to have one of them. Pacer have a look here www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/prepaid-cards . They can be quite expensive, but not all are. They are often used by people who struggle with budgeting or have no other way of getting a card. I can't find it now, but I did read an article a while ago that it was increasingly used by those who wanted to shop online but didn't want the risk. I think you would need to shop around Nick
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Post by calnorth on Jan 28, 2016 12:22:17 GMT
Case today:
Barclaycard Auto call (Fraud) yesterday pm to my landline. Absolutely appalling auto caller with a male brit voice ordering me to press button 1 and used my name (partly). I didn't respond fast enough and it dropped the line. I was slung between a scam or authentic. I thought the former and checked my online BC account..no activity on it other than mine.
Messaged BC immediately via my account which was joke in itself. Got 2 messages back form India this am giving me a UK Fraud Dept Num (I think UK?). I don't like this stuff going overseas. Who else? Talk Talk, Virgin, BT and....?
Anyway, it was Merchant Fraud to get me(?) a holiday via a travel agent based in Toronto...£359 which is not in my pattern spend, hence the auto alert.
5 years ago I had some concert tickets booked in Barcelona....NOT!
Candidate spenders I've yet to meet:
Amazon EuroCarparts Hairdresser (local) Morrisons Tesco Stores Debenhams Technomate UK (Sat Receivers) Next No EU/USA/China stuff
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Post by GunJack on Jan 28, 2016 12:25:12 GMT
I have never liked the idea of paypal once they decided you needed a bank account tied to your account Ten years ago, you only needed a card on it Then they decided to only allow cards from the country of residence Then you needed you bank account linked Having one card linked, ie a credit card with low credit limit is one thing, having full access to your bank account is extracting the urine you still don't need to have a bank acct linked.....
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Post by scaffman69 on Jan 29, 2016 14:11:27 GMT
I recently had 2 transactions taken from my paypal account from someone buying of ebay, paypal conatacted me straight away and they asked if i had bought the goods, i was refunded asap by paypal with no erxplanation of hpw it happened, still when i ask via email for one all i fwet back is change passwords etc. Bloody piss poor it is.
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Post by markus on Feb 18, 2016 13:50:26 GMT
Like Gunjack has said I didnt think you had to have a bank account linked to your paypal account ?....I know I dont...I only have an out of date CC card linked to mine & I add/delete cards when I need to use them, they have asked me to link a bank account but that was years ago when I used to sell on ebay.
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