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    I am freaking out. I read somewhere that paypal freezes 2000 acounts daily and that they will do it for any reason. I also read that there employees also perform identity theft stealing acount numbers and spending peoples money but pretending that it was hacker or something. Paypal knows my primary checking acount number and I use them as an account to send friends gift certificates sometimes. Should I change my checking acount number, Now? They are such a horrible company to take advantage of people and make millions.
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    i have never had a problem with them. i am scared that if i sell or buy something "adult" that they will do something to me if i use them for it... thats why i got allresell. (http://www.allresell.com/?126223)

    has anyone on here had a problem with paypal personally? its starting to worry me now.......



    i did some googling and found these:

    "A common scam on Paypal is the stealing of money through hacked accounts (by third parties, not Paypal). Many passwords are stolen through misleading Email messages."
    http://www.paypalwarning.com/

    letters from people with frozen accounts:
    http://www.complaints.com/january200...anuary29.3.htm

    this says there was a class action lawsuit aginst them in 2002:
    http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/b...4508/4508.html

    this says some paypal lawsuit sites are bogus (but not all.. I think...)
    http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y02/m02/i26/s01

    and of course:
    http://www.paypalsucks.com/
    they have a message board too with lots of stories and things....

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    Yes,I've had lots of trouble with paypal...I lucked out and got a 'feeling', so I withdrew all my money and changed my bank account number...the NEXT DAY my account was taken for $700, and frozen. I sent them scores of documentation proving it wasn't me, including IP searches that proved that the request came from a California address (I'm in Canada), all my ID etc..., and they basically ignored it. So now my account is in default $700, frozen, and I just ignore it.

    My tip off was a friend who had his account frozen, with over $10000 in it, for over 6 months. He had just started selling tapestries online and was doing good business. www.paypalsucks.com has stories too...

    Paypal is scary because they act like a bank, yet there is NO PROTECTION, and NO REGULATORY BODY to make sure they stay a-ok. check their BBB rating too- worst of any business in the US I think.

    It's worth it, in a way, for the convenience- my eBay business is about half of what it used to be because I don't use paypal, but for me the experience was so awful that it's worth it to me to not have to deal with that again.


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    whoa! i just looked and remembered that i have my old bank info on PayPal.. thanks for this info...

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    WOAH! Do they freeze your checking/savings accounts, or the money thats in your paypal account?

    This is making me very nervous... :o

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