About On-line Payment and Security

As a merchant, PayPal helps reduce your risk by ensuring that you are protected from the responsibility of handling customer credit card information.

PayPal can make you an increased target for fraudulent activity on the internet however.

It is essential that you maintain a secure PayPal password and that you not provide this password to anybody under any circumstances.

Phishing is a concern not only with PayPal, but with any on-line banking or merchant services.

Phishing in the PayPal context refers to fraudulent e-mails that attempt to coax you to provide your account login and password information to a site pretending to be a PayPal site.

Some of these e-mails can look quite convincing. Even the SSL indicators can no longer be trusted on a browser since a sophisticated fraudster can “spoof” the user by overlying suitable graphic images.

You should simply never click on an e-mail claiming to be from PayPal unless you are expecting the e-mail and understand the context.

We recommend you review PayPal's security tips on their corporate web-site:

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/fraud-prevention-outside