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Info update: Last week, being logged in to PayPal after receiving first SMS confirmation message, was playing on the account and trying to override SMS confirmations sending somehow. Nothing worked, but as bonus - was logged out and got "We couldn't confirm it's you". After confirming my identity at PayPal over the telephone, they couldn't make anything to log me in, and 72 hours waiting period had to be passed. On Saturday 72 hours log-in waiting time has passed, and here we go with the same circus: 1. Log-in together with 1st SMS confirmation: success. 2. Attempt to withdraw any money: 2nd SMS confirmation "sent", which never comes. Not successful. 3. Attempt to change phone number (SMS confirmation "sent"), nothing possible, SMS never comes. Not successful. 4. Basically, I can only ENTER PAYPAL ACCOUNT (there are no ANY account limitations), but I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ELSE.   Remembering good old days, when PayPal was really a good working service... ... View more

PayPal's SMS sending service doesn't work well for about 2 months already, probably a bit more. I already switched to another payment service and will continue using PayPal just occasionally, most likely. First PayPal switched their SMS sender service (at least for Lithuania, which is my location) which became very unreliable with time. After a while a classic situation became to look like this: 1. You receive SMS successfully on first log-in to PayPal site. 2. You don't receive SMS when you try to: - withdraw any amount to your bank account - add / change phone number You just don't receive SMS after first one has been sent.   I am not the fan of conspiracy theories, but it's not the first time when it looks like PayPal is avoiding paying funds out of it's account, but accepts new payments with pleasure. Keeping in mind how relatively expensive PayPal service is, that's more than disgusting.   p.s. - trying to solve the problem over the phone, several times the result was "all our agents are currently busy", and the call drops. Shame and sadness, PayPal.   ... View more