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Questions tagged [paypal]

An American company operating a worldwide online payments system.

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Why would someone keep sending money to my Paypal account without my consent?

I don't know why someone keeps sending money to my Paypal account, repeatedly at a certain interval. What would be the benefit from doing this? What would be the security scenario in maliciously using my Paypal account? What should I do to stop it?
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Random PayPal 2FA Codes

I sent an email out to PayPal a few weeks ago, and no response to my question, so I've decided to bring it to the Community for help (as the issue has occurred just 30 minutes ago) So, I'd say maybe a month or two ago (three max) I received probably…
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What do Paypal protected buttons defend against?

Paypal says that protected payment buttons are more secure as they cannot be altered by malicious third parties. I'm trying to figure out what they are supposed to protect against. If the attacker has gained access to your website and can edit your…
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Is the PayPal live client id through the API to pass is secure?

I have the PayPal development in my project. In the frontend, I use: // data ... credentials: { sandbox: this.PAYPAL_SANDBOX_CLIENT_ID, production: this.PAYMENT.PAYPAL_LIVE_CLIENT_ID, }, ... // template to use …
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Shortening PayPal url

I am currently sending very long PayPal url's to customers which sometimes leads to a line-break and makes it unclickable, whenever the customer can't receive HTML emails. I am thinking of using a 3rd party application like bit.ly to shorten the…
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Sent money to paypal account got refunded and sent it to another account? Possible scam?

I've matched with this girl on Tinder. She still lives in war-torn Ukraine. I've sent her 80$ to take a bus to central Europe, according to online data, the price checks out. Sending money to people I hardly know is a red flag. However it's only…
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Is it safe to login to PayPal in apps

How is it safe to use PayPal in an app where the app itself presents the PayPal login prompting email and password? How does PayPal even accept this risk? As an example, the coffee ordering app "Hey You" presents the PayPal login screen in the app…
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