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Re: No cell ("mobile") phone problem when trying t...

by gfml Contributor in Managing Account Archives
‎Mar-10-2023 06:01 AM
‎Mar-10-2023 06:01 AM
PayPal_Bindu Moderator:  Sorry, in my message to you I meant to say in the twelfth line of my message, "Then, after the landline phone number is submitted successfully, a "bot" calls their landline phone number shortly afterwards and verbally gives the PayPal customer the required 4-digit verification code number to use."  gfml  ... View more

Re: No cell ("mobile") phone problem when trying t...

by gfml Contributor in Managing Account Archives
‎Mar-10-2023 05:19 AM
‎Mar-10-2023 05:19 AM
PayPal_Bindu Moderator:  The problem is that "your team" that we get to speak to when we call that "Contact Us, Call Us" phone number (at least for us in Canada) are people in the Phillipines who, although they are very pleasant even with very frustrated and angry PayPal customers like myself, seem unable to help us because apparently the people back at the PayPal head office in the U.S. don't listen to our security verification complaints. I often ask them to transfer me to their supervisor, which they do, but the supervisor (also from the Phillipines) just tells me the same thing as the first person I talked to told me, that "they will pass on my complaint(s) to the head office in the U.S.", which if they actually do always seem to be ignored because the non-cell ("mobile") phone security verification issue continues to be unresolved.  Some people (maybe not in Canada) have told us that they are able to input their landline non-"mobile" phone number successfully when asked for a phone number without being told that the number inputted is unacceptable because it is not a "mobile" phone number. Then, after the landline phone number is inputted unsuccessfully, a "bot" calls their landline phone number shortly afterwards and verbally gives the PayPal customer the required 4-digit verification code number to use.  The funny thing about this is that I suggested months ago (to those unbelievably patient and polite PayPal support people in the Phillipines) using this protocol as an effective way to ensure adequate security verification without requiring the PayPal customer to have a "mobile" phone, and they said that they would pass on this suggestion to the PayPal security verification people in the U.S. Is it possible that this non-"mobile" phone security verification protocol has been put into effect in some countries outside of Canada, but not in our country for some reason? If so I don't see any reason why that protocol cannot be made available to Canadian PayPal customers also.  gfml  ... View more

Re: No Mobile Phone

by gfml Contributor in Managing Account
‎Mar-07-2023 01:29 PM
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‎Mar-07-2023 01:29 PM
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orgasmictomato:  When PayPal started accepting only "mobile" phone numbers in their security measures a while ago in Canada I suggested to their nice customer support people in the Phillipines that they could accept landline phone numbers if they were willing to use a "bot" to call the person and give them the 4-digit verification code number. I was told that PayPal wasn't willing to do that! Why does PayPal have different rules for different customers, or were the nice customer service people in the Phillipines just making this up?  gfml  ... View more

Re: No Mobile Phone

by gfml Contributor in Managing Account
‎Mar-07-2023 01:13 PM
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‎Mar-07-2023 01:13 PM
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Aurymn:  Yes, the banks I deal with in Canada use my landline to confirm all kinds of things with me all the time. Is PayPal trying to tell us that the banks' security measures aren't good enough for them? How ridiculous!  gfml   ... View more

Re: No Mobile Phone

by gfml Contributor in Managing Account
‎Mar-07-2023 01:03 PM
‎Mar-07-2023 01:03 PM
Alycidon:  I can't even record my landline phone number on the Paypal security system as it rejects my landline phone number and tells me that only a "mobile" phone number is acceptable! I have good reason to believe that after using PayPal  for more than 20 years they no longer want me as a customer.  gfml  ... View more

Re: No Mobile Phone

by gfml Contributor in Managing Account
‎Mar-07-2023 12:48 PM
‎Mar-07-2023 12:48 PM
kernowlass:  I'm glad that works for you, but it doesn't work for me when I'm at my country home on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario where the internet service is barely adequate and there is no cell phone service or wifi. I'm certainly not going to buy a cell phone to use for the PayPal service when I couldn't even use it for months at a time.  gfml  ... View more

Re: No Mobile Phone

by gfml Contributor in Managing Account
‎Mar-06-2023 05:53 PM
‎Mar-06-2023 05:53 PM
kernowlass:  Really? If there is no cell phone service in a location what makes you think there would be wifi service in that location?  gfml  ... View more

Re: No Mobile Phone

by gfml Contributor in Managing Account
‎Mar-06-2023 05:46 PM
‎Mar-06-2023 05:46 PM
K1tt3n-K0ng:  I'm glad that works for you, but it doesn't work for me. When I give PayPal my landline phone number when trying to log in they simply tell me that the number is not a "mobile" (cell) phone number and is therefore unacceptable. I'll tell you what is unacceptable; it's PayPal's idiotic and unnecessary security protocol requiring one to have a "mobile" phone to use their service!  gfml  ... View more

Re: No Mobile Phone

by gfml Contributor in Managing Account
‎Mar-06-2023 05:31 PM
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‎Mar-06-2023 05:31 PM
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dolt1:  This kind of answer from PayPal is totally unacceptable! I guess what we need to do is ask our federal government to pass a law making illegal the requirement by any company that we have a "mobile" (cell) phone to do something. Only then will PayPal and other such companies forcing this outrageous requirement on us cease and desist!  gfml  ... View more

Re: Can't change the security question/answer! Loo...

by gfml Contributor in Managing Account Archives
‎Mar-06-2023 05:11 PM
‎Mar-06-2023 05:11 PM
wpsbest:  I had a problem with this question also; I was asked to give an answer to this question even though I had never given PayPal an answer to the question! I did answer the question, but of course PayPal said it was the wrong answer and kept me locked out of my account. Their security protocol has a whole lot of bugs and is totally **bleep** up!  gfml      ... View more
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