@PayPal_Andy wrote: As far as the general purpose of verification; .... we are required to know a little more about you. We use adding and verifying your bank account for this purpose since in most cases, you had to walk into a bank and provide them identification to open an account. If you can prove ownership of that account, we use that verification to assist in our verification. 🙂 Andy This idea that verification is for the purpose of confirming you identity is also echoed in many places on the PayPal website. This statement, probably created by sales and marketing and spewed by all the minions (like Andy), is belied by this fact: After becoming "verified" by bank account, PayPal will take away your "verified" status if you then remove your bank acct. Here's a quote from their help pages: Why did I lose my Verified account status? "Your account becomes Verified when you link a bank account or add the PayPal Extras MasterCard® to your PayPal account. If you removed this, then your account is no longer Verified." Did unlinking your acct or PayPal CC somehow change your identity? Also, if for identification, then other options should also suffice. Stop pushing your Profit Margin Expansion on us as a security measure thats good for the community as a whole. I call BS on Andy and the other minions that continue to spew this crap. Also, and I quote again from PayPal's web pages, they misrepresent the "verification" process: "To Verify your PayPal account, just link your bank account to your PayPal account or be approved for PayPal Smart Connect or the PayPal Plus MasterCard®." Being "approved" for the PayPal credit card isn't enough, what they really mean is "being approved, accept and link your PayPal credit card."
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