RE: PayPal? Is it just me?
Pay Pal is great. I've used it for a long time. Never had a problem, paying someone or getting paid. Even Tower uses it. From sales my Pay Pal account builds up, when I buy something it never shows up on the Credit card billing or check book. Hard to buy a gift for your wife and really surprise her - but Pay Pal made it a lot easier.
Sure I get a lot of pay-pal and e-bay spoofs, who doesn't? The people that get sucked in on these are the same ones that give their credit card number to the charity soliciting over the phone for police benevolent associations, phony veteran organization and any number of other scams. I my perfect world the penalty for people engaged in these would be death by crushing under mountains of discard computers and monitors.