Paypal - Notification of Limited Account Access... again.

09:09.46 - Tuesday 20th June 2006   (Link to This Entry)

As if it wasn't bad enough Paypal getting me to change security questions that anyone could guess, I received the exact same email the next day asking me to do it all over again. Truly, the Department of Redundancy Department at Paypal is second to none.

The difference this time was that I didn't have to confirm my telephone number - instead I had to enter either my full bank account or credit card number. I suppose this is marginally more secure than asking my mother's maiden name, but not much. I had to redo the security questions and password again as well - hurrah.

But this time there was a clue! Apparently someone had tried to access my Paypal account from a foreign IP address. Still no word exactly when this occurred, but that seems to have been the problem - hacker wannabes. Unless of course Paypal's idea of 'foreigh IP address' is 'another ISP address', in which case I could have restricted my own account simply by accessing it from work. That would be fun.

Anyway, we'll see how this latest runaround goes. I won't be a hundred percent suprised if I get another email tomorrow telling my account has been limited due to third-party nonesense. Sigh.