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.
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