PayPal Plug-in Secure one-time credit card
Steve Gibson recommended the PayPal Plug-in Secure One Time use credit card on his great Security Now podcast a few weeks back.
It seems like a great idea and I have used it successfully a couple times.
I had trouble on Steve’s site using Firefox 3 and the new PayPal Plug in. The Plug-In requires a login but when I logged in I lost my order and the browser went to the Paypal site. I have no idea why.
Today I ordered from an online company using the PayPal Plugin. All went smoothly until the plug-in failed to provide the vendor-required credit card issuer 800 number. The issuer is typically a bank There is no such number listed anywhere on the PayPal site nor any reference to what bank issues the credit card. A phone call to PayPal help was answered promptly but the help representative admitted he did not know what the PayPal Plugin was or anything about one time use credit cards. He suggested I used the phone number on the back of my personal credit card. I objected and he put me on hold for a few minutes. Ultimately he told me to use the phone number of the main switchboard at PayPal!
If the order doesnt go through I will be unhappy because I will have missed the sale price on the LCD monitor I ordered. If the order does go through I will be worried that no one is checking the credit card information for accuracy and security.