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paypals "confirm phone number" when sending money
 

Hey guys,
im asked to confirm im the owner of my paypal account by phone. everytime i try to send money, or pay an invoice. i get the "confirm your phone," call now" every time i try to send money on my stealth paypal accounts. Unfortunately, google voice doesnt work with this. i have numerous paypals set up with google voice and i cant send money because of this. is there a way to fix problem/avoid this problem? thanks

Yeah this thing is really annoying, I hate it.

Some people have reported that google voice has worked for this. Do you have a landline you can use to verify. Or borrow a friends a cell..

I used yahoo phone to receive the call. Worked perfectly.

yes i have one landline will work, however im under the impression you need different numbers for different paypals? i cant use a single landline to confirm multiple stealth paypals.

Do you clear all cookies, PayPal like to see them cookies in your PC when you log in back to your account

you guys dont have a phone number you use for each account? what if you get a phone call from paypal or ebay regarding your account? if you dont answer then they give you the boot. u guys really have accounts with no real phone number??? that isnt smart imo

Read the initial post..there are different numbers on the PayPal accounts, problem is they are Google voice numbers, and they don't seem to work with PayPal phone confirmation. Also, yes I clear my cookies everytime I close my Firefox browser.

dont do that, this is the reason they are asking you to confirm by calling everytime you send a payment always keep your cookies just seperate each ebay/paypal with different windows user accounts

You could use a call forwarding service and direct the numbers to your landline.

Click cancel and they should ask you your security questions or your bank account number.

yep clicking cancel usually works for me to. and i get asked a different question

Yes, Sometimes it works. But for some account it will not redirect to insert the bank account number. Instead it will just cancel the transaction.

For me, that happens if I just recently added/changed my security questions.

why doesnt google voice work for this? Cant you logon to google voice, and call paypal?

I'm using Tossable Digits for mine, its fairly cheap and you can have multiple numbers all bounce to your same mobile/landline, its easier to keep track of than say a bunch of yahoo voice accounts. Everytime you buy a number you can choose which area code or city and to which number to send all incoming calls, you just bounce it to ur cell & ur golden.