Paypal and account skimming...

[azekeil]

I know a number of my friends have had their bank accounts skimmed, usually for online gambling or other difficult-to-trace transactions. I have heard horror stories in the past about PayPal's security, but I'm considering getting a PayPal account. Just on a whimsy, I thought I'd run up a quick poll to see if there's any correlation between 'people who own a PayPal account', and 'people who've had their bank account skimmed'. I am not suggesting for a second that this is true, but it would go some way to allaying my fears.

Please note, if you've had a different account to the one that is associated with PayPal skimmed, can you please not fill in the poll and leave a comment instead? Ta.

[Poll #964987]

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[azekeil.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing this is the case, but I have heard other horror stories about interactions between people and the guarantees they offer, etc etc. This is just the first stage of several bits of research I'm going to do before I trust them with my money :)