Re: PP now asking for SS# on new accounts?
There are a couple of threads about this. It seems to happen when they are suspicious of something.
Something similar happened to me a while ago when I created an Amazon account - they required a bank account on sign up. When I investigated to see what went wrong, I found the IP address I had used was in a different state from the user information I gave. That was, of course, back when I was new.
So, don't panic. It is not their policy to request an SSN for every account. At least not yet.
This is always why I told people to "be careful what you wish for" when they said PayPal should be a bank so they would have to follow banking rules. We DO NOT WANT that, because if PayPal WAS a bank, then they WOULD have to get an SSN for every US account.
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