When you login to your PayPal account, you now get a message asking you to
reconfirm your credit card and/or bank account number. This seems to me to
be training people to be phishing victims. I don't know of any other
financial site that has asked me to reconfirm this data. Why does PayPal
need it? I can't contact them about this because they always throw up that
"randomly selected" screen wanting my sensitive info before I can even email
them or leave feedback. How hard would it be for a phisher to guess the
last two digits of your PayPal account with some random number generator?
Jeremy R.
>From www.paypal.com:
Security Measures
We are currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures.
Your account has been randomly selected for this maintenance, and you will
now be taken through a series of identity verification pages.
Protecting the security of your PayPal account is our primary concern, and
we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Please choose ONE category, then fill in the correct information for that
category to verify your identity.
For your security, PayPal will never ask you to re-enter your full bank
account, credit, or debit card number without providing you at least the
LAST TWO DIGITS of the number. These digits let you know that we already
know the full number and are asking you for the rest of it. Beware of any
website or email asking for these numbers for "verification" that does not
PROVE that it knows the number by providing at least the last two digits.
