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<\/center><\/p>\nLack of proper security:<\/strong> If you use the paypal cart:<\/strong> Fixing the problem:<\/strong> I wish that I could say that Paypal is going to take a proactive approach in resolving this simple problem, but I just cant see them going out of their way for that. Whatever the case, paypal’s system is an example of completely irresponsible programming, and their customer are the ones that are affected by it.<\/p>\n
\nThe problem with the paypal shopping cart, is that is has a major flaw. The seller’s email address is publicly displayed in the product form on their website. This makes is easy for spammers to search for paypal product forms, and harvest the email addresses from them. What makes the problem even worse is that the email address are all but guaranteed to be good and used. They are also the same email addresses of active paypal users. This opens these users up to massive spam, and opens them up to phishing attempts of their paypal addresses. Every website that uses the paypal shopping cart, has their paypal email address displayed in the html code of their website.<\/p>\n
\nIf you use the paypal shopping cart setup a separate email address for your product forms. This way at least you can cut down on some spam to your general email inbox. Otherwise, I would suggest finding a separate shopping cart for your website. It may take a little extra work, but you are the only one that will pay for Paypal’s lack of security.<\/p>\n
\nIt wouldn’t take a lot of work for paypal to fix the problem. They would need to integrate a program that stores your email address, and replaces that space in the form with an encrypted code that links a visitor to your account. Are they going to implement something like this? Highly unlikely.<\/p>\n