[CAUT] Paypal

[Chris Solliday]

A search of PayPal will reveal many negative user sites. The last time I researched it I decided not to use it and nothing has happened since to change my mind. Not that American Express handled a problem with a camera purchase I made from a fraud pumping discounter to my satisfaction, not a well researched buy on my part though. If I had spent the time to reasearch the discounter as well as I did PayPal I never would have used them.
 The important things to remember that I have learned the hard way over the years on the web are: "caveat emptor (buyer beware)," have a good internet security sytem in place and don't be stupid. But there's no guarantee that a bigger faster smarter fish won't take a bite out of you from time to time.
Just my two cents.
Chris Solliday
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Avery Todd 
  To: College and University Technicians 
  Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 9:02 AM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Paypal


  Just for the record, it wasn't my account. It was just something I ran across that I thought might be of interest to some of you who use Paypal. 

  Avery Todd

  On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> wrote:

    Steve, as I see it, the problem is this: 

    Someone hacked Avery's iTunes password, but to pay for it with Paypal, they'd have had to somehow hack into his Paypal account as well. When I go to pay for something with Paypal, I have to sign in and use my password. If somebody got into Avery's Paypal account without his password, this is Paypal's problem. Unless, of course, Avery's iTunes password and his Paypal password were the same -- never a good idea. 

    Susan 


    At 03:50 PM 8/1/2008, you wrote:

      "Due to some lax security policies that Apple has thankfully since updated, someone was able to use my birth date to obtain my iTunes password, and get into my account. They then managed to use that information to give themselves a nice little gift of $450 worth of iTunes gift cards… courtesy of my PayPal account."

      Apple got paid for the gift cards.  It was their security problem.  Why would PayPal pay for this?

      Shouldn't we be bashing Apple instead of PayPal?

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