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How is this a scam?

• fallinghawks 13y ago
  Not so much a scam as a vulnerability. I found I had "authorized" Zappos some 2 years ago. In the Zappos purchase process, there is no obvious indication you are authorizing pre-approved, charge me without my authorization payments. No other retailer with whom I have used Paypal has done this. (I'm no Imelda Marcos, why should this need to be?) This makes it possible for an unprincipled employee to embezzle. The other part that makes this feel sketchy is that it's buried in an unintuitive place on the Paypal page.
  • glimmung 13y ago
    I think "scam" is a bit strong then - that implies intentional deception. More to the point, these sorts of pre-authorised and/or recurring transactions are also an issue with credit cards - it's not particular to Paypal by any means, and it's publicised and policed at least as badly with credit cards as with Paypal.