PayPal security keys are now available for purchase, offering consumers the option vastly enhanced protection against account breaches.
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Paypal Introduces SecurID Tokens
By 1.16.07
Paypal will sell SecurID tokens to its customers, starting early this year. The PayPal Security Key is a keychain size device that generates a new six-digit code every 30 seconds. Paypal will require signed up customers to enter in order to complete transactions.
Paypal Freezes Deadspin Fund For Slain Soldier
By 1.10.07
Sigh. All that’s in the past now, isn’t it? Let’s help Deadspin in true Consumerist fashion.
Paypal Cruel To Tivo eBayer
By 12.29.06
Reader Homerjay’s story bolsters our big prediction for 2007: Paypal is going down.
Google Checkout OK For Micropayments
By 12.28.06
Google Checkout can be used for transactions as low as $.05, reader Mary Marsala With Fries confirms.
Vincent Gallo: Try Google Checkout
By 12.21.06
Paypal suspended Vincent Gallo’s account after he put his sperm up for auction ($50,000). For an additional $500,000, Gallo said he would inseminate in-utero.
Try Google Checkout, Paypal Minus Evil
By 11.30.06
• Use it now and get $10 off $30 or $20 off $50, at participating stores.
PayPal To Introduce $20 Rebates
By 11.7.06
PayPal plans on giving $20 rebates to customers shopping at participating partner sites, November 23 through May 15, 2007. Online merchants include iTunes, Barnes & Noble, Dell, Petsmart, Starbucks, Art.com, HP, and many more.
Paypal Bombed
By 11.1.06
Last night, an explosion rocked Paypal’s network operations center, blasting windows and leaving a haze in its wake.
Google Checkout Promises To Be Less Evil Than Paypal
By 10.10.06
Unlike Paypal, Google Checkout promises to not suddenly freeze your bank account.
Consumerist Ask Metafilter Round-Up
By 8.8.06
• I was cited for CVC 21651(A)(1) in Aliso Viejo, CA. Please help me determine if I can beat this ticket. [Link]
Detect Paypal Phishes Without Thinking
By 8.2.06
Now you can determine whether that latest “Paypal Account Notification” you got was a Paypal phish and you don’t even have to have a brain. Phil says:
How To Spot A PayPal Spoofer
By 8.2.06
As a person who conducts many thousands of dollars worth of transactions through PayPal every month, I’ve become rather adept at spotting a spoof. Not only is Thunderbird pretty excellent at picking up on scams, but a quick commonsense check when looking over an email from PayPal is all that it takes to thwart most spoofers. Does the ‘Click Here to Resolve’ actually link to PayPal? You can tell simply by hovering your mouse over the link and looking at the URL at the bottom. No? Ergo, not from PayPal.
PayPal Hates Hookers and The Men Who Love Them
By 7.31.06
Mark Perkel likes hookers. Hey, who doesn’t? Other than Paypal, that is.
