I've had a PayPal account for over three years and have had absolutely no problem with it and my checking account is registered as a part of my account in addition to one credit card number. I have gotten several spoof emails about my PayPal account, but those were phishing emails that did not come from PayPal. I did forward them to PayPal for follow up in hopes that those Phishing guys might be caught. If your buying something through PayPal, there is no fee, but there are seller's fees. I also want to mention that I've also gotten phishing emails supposedly from EBay and the Philadelphia Credit union. The one from the credit union was really scary. I knew that it was a spoof because I don't have an account there, but they gave a telephone number which was a Lansing Michigan phone number (517) area code, that had me talking to an automated voice male system. If I had held one of their accounts, I might have been suckered in by that one. I did give that phone number to our Michigan State Police. 73 Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR Skype Name: bobtinn Life is GOOD! ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [BLIND-HAMS] off topic Paypal question no minimum account balance that I know of, I guess they're safe. The only thing I don't like about them is they require a bank account in order to use them after you spend so much with them through a credit card, it's different every time some one I know signs up, but for me it was after I spend a total of $2000 with them I'll have to register a bank account, my mother it was like $500. I only have 1 bank account and there's no way in you know where, they're getting that info. They used to have a lot of problems in the past with closing out accounts and withholding the money in that account with them, and a few other things you can read about if you search the net, but since Ebay bought them out 2 or 3 years ago, I don't know of anyone who's had any issues but I will never trust them or any other web site with bank account info. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:31 AM Subject: Re: off topic Paypal question > Three questions I have always had about pay pal is do you need a minimum > account balance with them? Also, what kind of fees do they charge? How > safe > are they to use? > > God bless, > Mark WZ0K > God loves you! > My personal prayer book. > Add your prayer or pray for others at the following link. > http://prayerbook.homewithgod.com/cgi-bin/prayerbook/multi.pl?131961113534708:24:0 > My Ham Radio Lists > http://lists.topica.com/lists/funhamradio. > http://groups.google.com/group/funhamradio-list > My personal website > http://funhamradio.bloki.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 5:45 AM > Subject: Re: off topic Paypal question > > >> sorry, I didn't see paypal mentioned in the subject line. they have an >> audio >> link you can listen to the audio to get those characters. I didn't see >> the >> subject line, I seldom watch those in the morning when I'm going through >> all >> my morning email. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]> >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:01 AM >> Subject: Re: off topic Paypal question >> >> >>> unfortunately, you don't. the only way that some times works, is if you >>> print out the page and then scan it in to an OCR program and even that >>> isn't >>> 100% useful. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Harvey" <[log in to unmask]> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]> >>> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:21 AM >>> Subject: off topic Paypal question >>> >>> >>>>I know this has been discussed before, but how does a blind person type >>>>in >>>> the characters in the security box when it says to do so? I have >>>> looked >>>> for >>>> them, but JFW apparently can't find them. 73. >>>> Harvey >>>> >>> >> >> >