I'm getting fed-up of this "suspicious activity" message and am now seriously looking for an alternative payment method. To explain why I am fed-up: I am a single person, living alone, housebound with serious mobility problems. I only leave the house twice a year so online facilities like PayPal are a real lifeline to me. Every single thing I do online is done via my very secure home router and done on either my Windows 7 desktop or my Google Pixelbook. I never use smartphone apps for financial purposes and don't even have the PayPal app on phones or Tablets. Tonight I received a regular start-of-month email from PayPal inviting me to review my recent activity and I clicked on the link to log in to my account. *AGAIN* - the dreaded "suspicious activity" message, change your password. In the past I have sometimes been able to ignore that message by closing the browser, clearing cache and logging back in without any problems about "suspicious activity". This leads me to believe that these are unwarranted, spurious messages. Tonight however, that did not work and I then had to crawl back through to my bedroom to retrieve my mobile phone as they wanted to send me a text to confirm I was me. After receiving the text I then did *another* password change and successfully logged in, meantime having to change the details in my password manager. After logging in, there is no sign of "suspicious activity" and there is only my usual small payments to EBay over the past month. To repeat, I am fed-up of this and intend either finding an alternative or closing my account and reverting to using my credit card direct. I *never* have this trouble with two banks that I use and there are much bigger financial transactions carried on with them. Why cannot PayPal give some kind of indication of what this "suspicious activity" might be? Because there has been *no* such activity and it is their method of forcing password changes when *they* feel like it.
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