Skype will soon allow users to send money to other Skype users via PayPal, a popular online payments system -- all from within the Skype client. This was announced by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom during a speech he gave. Both Skype and PayPal are owned by eBay, so the integration makes sense. “You can send money over Skype,” Mr Zennstrom said of the upcoming service plan. “This is basically connecting the Skype community over PayPal. All the user needs is a PayPal account.” This news follows the recent Skype Prime news that enabled Skype users to "charge" other Skype users for the right to speak to them, i.e. consulting, "VoIP phone sex", etc.
Zennstrom said the company is working with PayPal, but initially declined to say exactly when the service would be made available to Skype's users. However, it was later confirmed that an official launch of the service would come soon, perhaps within a month. Wonder how long before the first Skype-to-Paypal fraud occurs?
Zennstrom said the company is working with PayPal, but initially declined to say exactly when the service would be made available to Skype's users. However, it was later confirmed that an official launch of the service would come soon, perhaps within a month. Wonder how long before the first Skype-to-Paypal fraud occurs?
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true comments! i have had money illeagally removed from my paypal account via skype.
Andrew, on 5/27/08, I just had four debits from my checking acct through paypal to skype! And I DO NOT have a paypal link or auto-recharge enabled on my skype account. Four unauthorized debits of 10 euro each on one day. That's effed up.
I now will be closing my checking account and reopening a new one. My bank has refunded the charges to me and they are disputing the charges from paypal to skype. What a pain.
$400 was just taken out of my personal bank account through Skype, even though I never gave Skype my paypal information. Paypal says they have refunded it, but I have not received it yet.
Dec 08, Five debits of 10 UK pounds were charged to my paypal account took place on Sunday, billed to Skype. They are in the "resolution" phase now, and my paypal account has been "limited" until resolution. I had never used my Skype account, and indeed, the charges don't show up on the Skype account, only in paypal, which leads me to believe someone set up a dummy account with my email address and then linked it to my paypal, although I can't be sure of that. Right before Christmas in hard times. Not good.