posted on December 6, 2000 04:04:13 PM new
Contrary to what AuXPal would like you to believe, their website does nothing to prevent fraud because they are merely piggybacking onto PayPal.
PayPal, for its part, has its own security problems for which they are either unable or unwilling to correct.
Time and time again, PayPal has restricted accounts because a stolen credit card was used in a transaction on their online payment service. How does PayPal open an account using a stolen credit card? How does PayPal have a record of billing address which it fails to share with the auction seller, allowing that auction seller to ship merchandise to some other address?
PayPal utilizes the services of CyberSource. Here is a portion of an 12-April-2000 news release from the latter.
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CyberSource® Powers Industry's First Email Payment Service, PayPal
Leading Web-based Payment Provider for Auctions, Internet Groups and Individuals, Drives Growth in New Segment
Mountain View, Calif.
April 12, 2000
CyberSource Corporation (Nasdaq: CYBS), a leading provider of mission-critical eCommerce transaction services, today announced that leading email payment service PayPal has selected CyberSource Payment Services and Risk Management Services to handle credit card payments for its rapidly growing subscriber base.
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Is CyberSource providing shoddy "mission-critical eCommerce transaction services"? Is PayPal violating its fiduciary responsibility to auction sellers in allowing the shipment of merchandise to mailing addresses that are not billing addresses? What exactly is PayPal verifying anyway?
[ edited by dimview on Dec 6, 2000 04:06 PM ]
