How to Secure and Enable PayPal XNUMX-Step Verification - Step by Step

Protecting our money is extremely important, the security of our financial information is also something we must always rely on. Likewise, accessibility to our money is also essential, which is why we need tools that ensure safety and accessibility.

In a world where online shopping is becoming more common as well as transfers in real time to anywhere in the world, electronic transactions are more necessary. For this we need tools that facilitate this task, but always ensuring that our money is safe.




What is PayPal? It is one such tool that the general public has earned to be one of the most practical and safe currently available. For those of us who are PayPal users, it is necessary to maintain a flawless security system that gives us peace of mind and lets us know that our money will be safe.

How to secure and activate PayPal XNUMX-Step Verification?

How to Secure and Enable PayPal XNUMX-Step Verification - Step by Step

PayPal offers us options to increase the security of our accounts and allows us to choose between different methods. One of them is PayPal's two-step verification.

This way of protecting the integrity of our account consists of an identity verification, which will be done via a text message. This message will reach our mobile with a verification code that we must enter when we log in to PayPal.

In this way, this article will focus on showing all the steps we need to follow to activate this mode in our account. As we know it is extremely necessary to have the complete control about the tools that store our money.

Steps to enable PayPal XNUMX-Step Verification

The first step is enter our browser and log into our PayPal account. Using our email and password.




Once we enter PayPal, we have to select the option of settings at the top right of the screen. This option is identified by a sprocket symbol.

This way we will enter the settings section, here we will do click on account. In the lower right part where it says telephone, we will select the option represented by the symbol (+). This action allows us to add our phone number.

In the box that says number of phone we will write the number we want to register, so we accept the terms and conditions.

Then a box appears in which we will indicate that we must enter a code, the our registered mobile will receive that verification code that we have to write there.

How to Secure and Enable PayPal XNUMX-Step Verification - Step by Step

To complete the PayPal verification you must respect these aspects

Once the previous steps have been performed, we can continue, in the same section as settings let's select the option Security Center. Where it says security code on the right side we press edit.

So it will tell us that we need to enter ours phone number to activate verification in two steps, which we must write in the box that requires it. Once the number has been entered, we download everything and select to register a mobile number.

Our mobile will receive another code that we must enter where the 6-digit code says. This is to verify that the cell phone really belongs to us. Finally, we click on activate security key, in this way we will have successfully activated the two-step verification of PayPal.



We recommend, if you have more than one phone number, to also register it in the option provided by PayPal below (register the new mobile device number). Since if we only have one registered number and it is lost, it will be very difficult to regain access to PayPal.



How does PayPal verification work?

Once we have done the above steps, we will have activated two-step verification which works as follows:

  • When we try to log into our PayPal account, we will see the option for receive a text message, there we write our number and click on send me SMS.
  • The code will reach our mobile, we put it in the box that says the security code  and we carry on. Ready we will have entered our PayPal account.
  • Each time we log in, a message will reach our mobile to indicate that we are logged in to PayPal.

I recommend that you verify your account with a credit or debit card and remember that if you have any problems with your Paypal account, you can easily contact the PayPal technical service.



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