New PayPal app brings savings, bill payments, crypto, shopping tools

PayPal has hinted at an overhaul of its mobile app to bring new features and services and now we’re seeing the first version of this “super app”. The new app brings several new tools for users including direct deposit, a digital wallet, bill payments, shopping tools, and even cryptocurrency capabilities. It also brings a new … Read more

Boris Johnson buys a painting of himself and his family at Chequers – using PayPal 

Boris Johnson buys a painting of himself and his family at Chequers – using PayPal Painting of Boris Johnson and his family at Chequers has been bought by the PM Mary Casserley painted the picture in the style of a pre-war railway poster She painted the picture at kitchen table of her former home in Hertfordshire … Read more

Why was I re-billed £115.25 for a clearly fraudulent PayPal transaction?

Why was I re-billed £115.25 for a clearly fraudulent PayPal transaction even though I’d never had an account and never made the purchase? Ethan Patterson, 18, spotted two suspicious purchases at the start of November He said the transactions were fraudulent as he had never had an account   The money was initially refunded but was … Read more

CVS becomes first US retailer to support PayPal and Venmo QR codes for checkout payments

CVS becomes first US retailer to support PayPal and Venmo QR codes for checkout payments, allowing customers to avoid touching keypads amid the coronavirus pandemic CVS now accepts PayPal and Venmo QR codes for payments at all its US stores Customers open either PayPal or Venmo on their smartphone and click ‘Scan’ Then select the … Read more

PayPal conman, 22, jailed for 16 months for fleecing victims out of thousands

Jacob Bailey, 22, of Rothesay Close, east Hull, was jailed for 16 months after he conned innocent sellers out of their money then frittered his earnings on drugs This is the face of a sophisticated online conman who targeted innocent victims with fake PayPal sales on his unsuspecting friend’s account from his home in Hull. … Read more

PayPal customers will be slapped with a £12 ‘inactivity fee’

‘Merry Christmas from PayPal’: Irregular users of the payments platform will be charged a £12 ‘inactivity fee’ from 16 December – but it’s easy to avoid PayPal will start charging some customers an inactivity fee The US-based company said it will not be closing inactive accounts There are ways you can act now and avoid … Read more