Your paypal account could be easily stolen by your friends , did u know ?

I decided to check the security of my paypal account and started doing everything to recover my password by some of the means which are available in paypal.When i did so , i gave forgot password option.Let us assume that i know the email id of some other person whose password I'm trying to get.So i type the email id and proceed to next step.which is shown below ,
Then we proceed to next step , It asks us to confirm the account by any of the three means , which are through
1.phone number
2.address
3.email

And you choose phone number option it asks the phone number which you gave at the time of registration. The irony is that it asks the phone number and gives you the last 2 digits.Obviously your friend might be knowing your phone no.





so if he gives it right then he can end up in creating a new password and transfer it to his friend's account whom you don't know and then to his account.finally he'll land in this page
So what can be done to avoid these kinds of password stealing ?
Ans:
1.Don't let your email know to anyone .
2.use a dummy account to transfer account from your account to your friends account.And don't have any balance in that dummy account
3.Don't give correct phone number which you are using or know to your friend, give a imaginary number which you know and make it like a password.

you might ask that if he resets the password then you'll get a password reset alert to your email , but don't forget that it'll take only few minutes to transfer money from one paypal account to the other.

Disclaimer:This post was mainly to help my friends and keeping their account safe.If anyone indulges in using this post for retriving passwords or any illegal activities then will be sutitably punished under law.