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RE: [RC] Whats New with SERA - TeriNothing is safe. It is just as easy for theft identity to be stolen off of your check. It has happened to me at my old bank. Also have you ever checked your receipts when you use your credit card, some places display the whole number. How secure is that. But, thanks for your opinion. -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David LeBlanc Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 1:34 AM To: teri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [RC] Whats New with SERA Teri said: SERA (Southeastern Endurance Riders Association) has added new items to their site. You can now join or renew online your SERA membership. PayPal only. You can even open an account if you don't have one. It's easy. I'm sorry to rain on your parade, but there has been a lot of fraud associated with PayPal. There's only a username and password between the bad guys and your money. The username is your e-mail address, which is freely available all over the place, so all that protects you is the password. Searching Google on PayPal and fraud brings up a lot of interesting sites with many tales of woe. Personally, I'd much rather put a check in the mail than ever use PayPal. If someone felt like they really wanted to use PayPal the best way to do it is to link it with an account that is only used for PayPal, only contains as much money as you're willing to lose, and you put money in it when it needs to be there. Here's what http://paypalsuit.com/Phone.htm has to say: "We strongly recommend that people keep their PayPal balance as low as possible. Remove funds immediately. Also, use a second banking account for Paypal and as soon as those funds are in there, move it to your main account." These folks certainly have an axe to grind, but it seems like sound advice to limit your risk. My job is software security and some of the things I've seen and heard about would make your hair stand on end, but even so, I do use credit cards over the Internet fairly often - there's safeguards in place for those. I won't use PayPal. I'm sure you worked hard to set this up, and I do apologize for raining on your parade, but if I still lived in the SE, I'd pay you any other way than that. If some of you out there are happy with PayPal, I hope you continue to have good luck. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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