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Old 02-21-2013, 07:44 AM
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Heads-up - I made an online purchase yesterday using PayPal. I entered my home address for shipping and the same address for billing. Once the transaction was complete, I got a pop-up saying that the address I'd entered for shipping was not my preferred address and was I sure I wanted to use the address I'd entered? Well, yes.

I then went to my PayPal profile to see what on earth was going on and why my preferred address would be something other than my home address. Quite a surprise - I found an address in Indonesia and two addresses in Ohio along with my own address.

I've notified PayPal, but all I got was instruction on how to remove the false addresses with no concern about how they got there. I Googled "unknown addresses in PayPal profile" and apparently I'm not the only one.
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Old 02-21-2013, 07:50 AM
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Thank you for the info.
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Old 02-21-2013, 09:34 AM
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Thanks for telling us about this!
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Old 02-21-2013, 09:35 AM
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Thanks for the heads up.
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Old 02-21-2013, 09:48 AM
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Thank you. Will check mine
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Omg. I will check immediately. Thank you.
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Old 02-21-2013, 09:56 AM
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Wow that is concerning.. Thanks so much for the heads up on this.
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Old 02-21-2013, 10:22 AM
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I checked my account, all is well there.

I sometimes wonder where some the ladies here shop or browse around the internet. That causes so much commotion with you accounts :bank, paypal, ebay, credit cards etc.

Usually if something is amiss on my bank statements it's operator error. And I correct it immediately.
I can't ever recall anything of mine ever hacked or personal info changed without me doing it.
Maybe it has a lot to do with the fact I don't participate in any of the social networking things. If you can't call me or email with gossip or family info. Then I am out of the loop.....LOL
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Old 02-21-2013, 10:28 AM
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I removed my card from my PayPal account. The account is still open and I can manually add the card any time I want to use the account. It's an extra step and a bit of a pain, but PayPal seems to be having lots of trouble recently so I think it's worth it.
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Old 02-21-2013, 11:01 AM
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i stopped using my paypal account long ago. sometimes that is inconvenient when i want an item and paypal is preferred, but i just pass by the item then.

chasinghawk... i love your last lines.
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