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Hi. Yesterday before going to bed late at night, PayPal wanted me to enter a mobile phone security code in order to transfer money from my bank account into my PayPal account. It took me many attempts of logging in and logging out on two different browsers and trying to add funds all the while trying to figure out why the 6-digit security code kept refusing to be sent to my mobile phone.   Today when I woke up out of bed, it suddenly dawned on me to check the spam folder on the phone and lo and behold, there it is, all the security codes that I received.   Unfortunately due to my many attempts of logging in and out and trying to add multiple different amounts of funds, and because PayPal has no doubt detected suspicious behavior, PayPal has locked me out of trying to add funds to my account.   PayPal now wants me to ring this number in order to get things sorted out:[Removed]   I understand that I may need to ring this number on Monday in order to straighten out the problem, but because I have difficulties with verbal communication and have a phobia of speaking to people over the phone, and because PayPal does not have a proper email address where I can exchange emails with a real person, I am hoping that a PayPal representative within the community may be able to further assist me.   All I need is for somebody to reactivate the mobile phone security code on my account. Now that I know the security codes are all being sent to my spam folder, I should now be able to gain full access to my PayPal account.   Thank you. ... View more

Hi. Yesterday late at night before going to bed, PayPal wanted me to enter a mobile phone security code in order to transfer money from my bank account into my PayPal account. It took me many attempts of logging in and logging out on two different browsers and trying to add funds all the while trying to figure out why the 6-digit security code kept refusing to be sent to my mobile phone.  Today when I woke up out of bed, it suddenly dawned on me to check the spam folder on the phone and lo and behold, there it is, all the security codes that I received.  Unfortunately due to my many attempts of logging in and out and trying to add multiple different amounts of funds, and because PayPal has no doubt detected suspicious behavior, PayPal has locked me out of trying to add funds to my account. PayPal now wants me to ring this number in order to get things sorted out: [Removed] I understand that I may need to ring this number on Monday in order to straighten out the problem, but because I have difficulties with verbal communication and have a phobia of speaking to people over the phone, and because PayPal does not have a proper email address where I can exchange emails with a real person, I am hoping that a PayPal representative within the community may be able to further assist me. All I need is for somebody to reactivate the mobile phone security code on my account. Now that I know the security codes are all being sent to my spam folder, I should now be able to gain full access to my PayPal account. Thank you.  ... View more

In regards to the PayPal.me link. If you click on the link, people can see my legal name, and I don't want people to see my legal name when seeking donations from various websites.   Can I simple change my legal name to another name under account - profile - update? Will changing my name here affect my buying and selling on eBay, and other websites?   If I were to give myself another name, will that be permanent? I ask this because I made the mistake of wrongly creating my PayPal.me URL which is now permanent. Here you can read what I wrote about that below.   I'm so angry right now! Because I wasn't sure how the PayPal.me works, and thinking this link would link me up to the website where I was hoping to receive donations for my uploaded video, so I typed in Brighteoncom, and now it's permanent. Wow! That is so freaking ridiculous when considering their was no warning, no nothing to indicate that what I was about to do would be made permanent.   PayPal, in order to fix this problem, am I now required to transfer all my money back into my Commonwealth savings account, then delete my PayPal account, then register for a new account? Will that fix the problem?   Or can I simply disable this PayPal URL link, then register for a secondary PayPal account to receive donations?   It's absolutely appalling to see that people were complaining about this problem back in 2015. Now 5 years later, and I see there are over 33 pages of angry people here in the PayPal Community who are still complaining over the same thing. Yet after all that's been said and done, PayPal still has done absolutely nothing to fix the problem. Pfft!   That kind of attitude has taught me a very powerful lesson. Now I can see that PayPal doesn't give a damn about it's customers! ... View more