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Re: My Account Suddenly Became Chinese...

by willowywicca Contributor in My Account Archives
‎Jul-13-2014 02:34 AM
‎Jul-13-2014 02:34 AM
This has now been resolved by Paypal support. ... View more

Re: My Account Suddenly Became Chinese...

by willowywicca Contributor in My Account Archives
‎Jul-11-2014 05:51 AM
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It is not related to that. I tried logging in from a different laptop, and from an ipad and it also is now in chinese on both of those. It is something on Paypal's side, not local to my machine(s). ... View more

My Account Suddenly Became Chinese...

by willowywicca Contributor in My Account Archives
‎Jul-10-2014 06:39 PM
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As the title says, upon logging in today I found that my many-year old paypal account has somehow been automatically changed to be entirely in chinese now. Please revert it back to english so that I can properly use it again. All login screens, pages within the account etc are all in chinese. My previous payment was to a chinese person, but I've a long history of payments to non-chinese destinations so it seems a bit silly that it would change my language based solely on that..   Anyways, any help in reverting my account to English settings would be greatly appreciated. I did try going through all menu options with google translate but couldn't find any mention of language settings anywhere at all..   Also, is this a sign that my account was hacked? There doesnt seem to be any transactions made which makes me suspect not, but a little concerned nonetheless.. ... View more
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