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Sort of? I don't think everything always shows up on https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/autopay/

I think it maybe only shows companies you had recent transactions with.

In 2023, I had a fraudulent $0.99 Paypal Automatic Payment for "Domain Name Forwarding - Renewal" from a company (DomainsPricedRight/OwnMyDomain aka GoDaddy) that I last did business with in 2005. Yes, 18 years prior.

I was able to 'deactivate' the 'subscription' on the Paypal site after I noticed the charge but I don't think automatic payments existed on Paypal in 2005 and I'd certainly never signed up for it.

The original 2005 business I did was a one time domain purchase that was transferred to another registrar within a year.

It was real fun to also see on Paypal that I could have been fraudulently charged up to $10,000.

It's kind of scary to think that any company I've done a Paypal transaction with could maybe do the same thing (or any of the companies that eventually acquire their merchant accounts...)




I believe that this is the more reliable URL (it's certainly the one I provide to Ardour subscribers):

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_manage-paylist

[ EDIT: which redirects to the one you cited, so forget my attempt to be less wrong ]




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