I've received several e-mails from phishers using Paypal as a front. It has a link to a site that looks exactly like the paypal log in screen and asks you to reconfirm all of your information. When it asked me for my SS# I was suspicious and looked at the URL and noticed it had a different address but had PayPal in the end of it. I started playing around with the log in screen with colorful words and it accepted anything I put in.
Paypal is trying to protect it's users from scams. We got caught in the middle. It's a shame that this level of security needs to exist.
JG, I completely agree; to a point. I in no way damn them for their intent to be secure and protect clients and consumers. My issue was how asinine and obtuse it become.
In the end I'd provided, redundantly, drivers license, passport, bank statements, two other gov't issued IDs, a tax record, confirming messages from people here saying they knew what was being paid for and probably a bit more as well. It was just that once they started down the path they begin it seemed their course could never be corrected from it. It was almost willfully obtuse. Speaking with real people mattered not. The area of staff that dealt with this kind of issue were disinclined to discuss or reason or evaluate. It was automatons at work with no desire to be anything else. It put my panties in a wad.
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