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  • Jul 12, 2011 @ 12:47am

    Online Purchase Text Confirmation

    It is crazy that a company like paypal (for starters) would not enable a separate sign up and login for each users account where they could use alternate login/pass to register their cell phones for SMS confirmations of all online paypal purchases.

    This way if your Paypal Account(and probably email account)gets hacked, hopefully your SMS login was not, enabling you a window to stop the madness.

    They text could state: You have made a purchase from http://www.goodreference.biz for $49.99.

    You could even add.. Reply with agree or disagree, depending on the time lag.

    Paypal can charge it's customers $10 a year, and pay a licensing fee.