Originally posted by Pete D:
Their whole address confirmation thing is stupid as hell. Even if you have a premier account, done many transactions in the past and never had any sort of claim (yours or against you) you still have to go through it every time you want to add/change an address. Apparently, they don't realize that not everybody lives in the same place all year 'round. 
Sucks for me over here also...
Tried getting a new Debit card, but putting in my APO address (which is confirmed, btw), it tells me this:
You have an invalid address. Note that your address line cannot exceed 26 characters, your city line cannot exceed 18 characters, and you must enter a valid state. Please change it before proceeding.
Way to support us Paypal! 
Guess I can't add my German address, either... weird.
Sent them emails regarding those subjects. I'm sure I'm going to get some copy/paste answer that says "you must have a confirmed address blah blah" or something.
Regarding the original subject, I changed and encourage all of you with Paypal to use a strong password:
More than 8-12 characters
Have at least 1 capital letter
Have at least 1 lower case letter
Have at least 1 number
Have at least 1 special character (~`!@#$%^&*()+=?/><,.)
This will make it EXTREMELY difficult for someone to guess or brute force (use a program) hack your password.
Password strengths on Wikipedia.
EDIT: oh, and of course, no matter how strong your password is, if you have a key logging spyware or virus program, they're gonna get in your account. Regularly run some sort of spyware scanner (Adaware, Spybot S&D, Windows Defender, etc) to make sure you're clean.
Oh, and NEVER, EVER put your account information into a page that you got to by clicking on a link on some page/email/IM.
ALWAYS type the site in yourself or follow a bookmark YOU made to the log in page.
I recently found this in an IM some girl on my Yahoo list sent out. She obviously has some sort of spyware on her computer since I got an IM saying "hey, check out my new pictures" and some page after that.
I clicked on it (I always dig pics of girls!), and it was an exact duplicate of an old Yahoo Photos log in page, but with the weird URL shown below. I reported it to Yahoo, and it's gone now, but
ALWAYS be on the lookout.
http://www.my-photos-personals.8m.net/, which is obviously not a Yahoo page. Don't worry about clicking it, page is gone now.
